Making things work properly with PIC on 32-bit x86 architectures is tricky
because of our lack of %ebx. Additionally, GCC versions < 4.3 have some
problems determining what registers may be reused, causing some of the inline
assembly constraints to be a little counterintuitive. (Thanks to Ian Lance
Taylor for the suggestion to get around the reuse issues.)
This change makes us use sane assembler in cases where we're running
non-PIC and use the heavyweight versions only for PIC. There may still be
some issues in this code; for example, it's apparent that 64-bit btc and
bts intrinsic atomics are broken in the version of GCC I'm using, so those
will have to be implemented.
Additionally, the ck_stack tests currently don't work with fPIC (not sure
if that's the fault of the tests or the port). Everything does pass now in
non-PIC, excluding btc/bts tests (in my current environment).
Devon H. O'Dell
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