On Thursday, 20 September 2018 14:16:15 CEST Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
 OCaml has a small runtime which is statically linked into the virt
 tools (providing things like GC and primitives).  Since OCaml 4.03 it
 has been possible to select variants of this runtime, one of which is
 compiled with -fPIC, using ‘ocamlopt -runtime-variant _pic’.
 
 This has performance implications on i686, but is relatively free on
 other architectures.  Since it (in theory) adds to the security of the
 final binary this commit enables it whenever it is available.
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LGTM.
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