Re: writing a jump table
Brian Raiter <[email protected]> Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:23:08 -0700
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> I think I figured it out now. I used gcc to compile PIC for the C > switch statement and checked what it does. I don't fully understand > it to be honest, but it seems to do the job also for non PIC code. Of course -- PIC code just means that the code doesn't assume it knows where it's located in memory, which for a shared-object library is a necessary thing. It does mean the code has to jump through a few more hoops, which is why the compiler doesn't make it the default. b