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Re:Dissecting QNX [pdf] by nwmcsween on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @05:13AM (#18022906)
At what point do you want general purpose code to be position dependent?
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Re:Dissecting QNX [pdf] by dfox on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @03:22PM (#18026953)
When you program for platform where writing PIC involves ugly hacks with measurable performance impact, for example i386.
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Re:Dissecting QNX [pdf] by nwmcsween on Thursday September 20, 2018 @01:15PM (#18034012)
Its not i386 that's the issue, it's the ABI
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