Re: writing a jump table

[Brian Raiter <breadbox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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
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