On 16 jun 2005, at 17:12, Florian Klaempfl wrote: >> The best way to solve this would be to compile the Free Pascal RTL >> as a >> shared library with an init routine that takes care of this. I still >> have to add support for doing this to the Mac OS X port though. I've >> recently found a way to do this which does not require PIC support, so >> it should be fairly easy to add now. > > > Creating PIC isn't the hard part anymore. I already have a non-working patch to add PIC for PPC, but the current PIC support we have is very incomplete. For example, PIC access must be enabled for all constants which are put in the data section (like fpu and string constants). Currently, those are still directly accessed, so we only generate partial PIC code (which is worse than no PIC code, because you get the slowdown in the places where PIC is used without the ability to actually share code between different programs).