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Re: [RFC] PowerPC select_section / unique_section
- From: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- To: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>
- Cc: Franz Sirl <Franz dot Sirl-kernel at lauterbach dot com>, Geoff Keating <geoffk at redhat dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 22:25:26 -0400
- Subject: Re: [RFC] PowerPC select_section / unique_section
>>>>> Alan Modra writes:
Alan> Setting flag_pic to zero when
Alan> we are PIC amounts to lying to the rest of the compiler.
Not really. GCC handled PIC just fine before flag_pic was
introduced. flag_pic really means flag_got. It really means enable a
particular way of implementing PIC support, not enable PIC codegen. It
would be nice if flag_pic meant PIC, but the meaning is confused with the
implementation.
David