> 
> I don't know anything about the internal design of shared libs, but
> on a proper CISC architecture like the VAX it should surely be possible
> to generate position independent code without the help of extra tables?
> At least it could be done on the PDP-11. Heck, it didn't even HAVE
> an absolute addressing mode, just autoincrement PC deferred ;-)
> 
There are no problem with generating pic code, but there are no 
vax specific code in gcc to do it. Someone has to fix that to make
shared libraries work.

-- Ragge