> > Why do we not have shared libraries on NetBSD/vax? Sorry if this is a
> > very naive question.
> > 
> Because noone has taught gcc to produce pic-code for vax.

Interesting... Unless my memory totally fails me, the VAX very much works
the same way as the PDP-11, on which  you really had to get explicit to
avoid getting PIC code. So, either gcc is more than just a little stupid,
or some strange solutions have been used...

> Also the 
> assembler and loader must be fixed to be able to use this.

That would be quite some job, though... :-/

	Johnny

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