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Re: A very "strange" bug in gcc 2.96
> Date: 21 May 2000 13:42:42 -0700
> From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@zembu.com>
> It's not broken to build a shared library with an object compiled
> without -fPIC. It is often a convenience, when a single object is
> used in multiple ways.
Then the linker or assembler is broken, right?
It's surely valid, if unusual, assembler to branch to other object
files.
I know this works on ppc.
It may be that fully supporting this feature (non -fpic in shared
libraries) means something as nasty as implementing linker relaxation,
but...
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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>