C++ extension module crashes on Solaris

[Carey Evans]

sharris at nospam.primus.com (Steven E. Harris) writes:

> Other advice involving compiling the extension with '-fPIC' also
> seemed relevant, but turned out to not make any difference. Now I'm
> not sure why '-fPIC' _isn't_ required!

If you don't compile with -fPIC, the code will be relocated when it is
loaded.  It can't be shared between processes this way, though, so
each Python that loads the extension will get a new copy of the code.

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