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Re: Abt -fpic, -fPIC Option

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
To: "Rohit Arul Raj" <rohitarulraj at gmail dot com>
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:12:23 +0200
Subject: Re: Abt -fpic, -fPIC Option
References: <c356fd4e0610240639s22ae2014k30791b0870f56d8@mail.gmail.com>

"Rohit Arul Raj" <rohitarulraj@gmail.com> writes:

> I have built a cross-compiler for m68k-elf with GCC 4.1.1.
> I need to know the difference in implementations of -fpic and -fPIC
> for this particular target.

-fpic uses 16-bit offsets into the GOT, thus limiting its size to 32k per
object.  With -fPIC the offset is 32 bits, thus there is no limit.

Andreas.

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References:
- Abt -fpic, -fPIC Option
  - From: Rohit Arul Raj

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