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No PIC (Announce)

posted by Japheth , Germany (South), 20.06.2008, 20:22

> > 2) what is it good for?
>
> Avoiding segmentation and fixups, using shared libs / objects / drivers (
> YES - DOS needs reusable 32-bit PIC drivers :hungry: )

For what? IMO absolutely useless for DOS.

> Reserve one register ( EBX ? or FP will decide for you ?) for global base,
> and index all global vars with it.

Yes, but that's bullshit. PIC might be somewhat useful for Unix, for DOS and Windows it's useless, for ASM it's big CRAP.

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    - PIC - marcov, 21.06.2008, 13:54