Re: Information regarding -fPIC support for Interix gcc

[Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 04:22:37PM +0800, Mayank Kumar wrote:

> I am currently looking at interix gcc and found that -fPIC generated
> binaries crash although not all binaries crash. This has been known for
> quite some time since I found a lot of posts about it. I want to know if
> this issue has already been fixed and a patch submitted or this issues
> is still pending on Interix gcc.  I am currently investigating this
> issue and was wondering if somebody has fixed it or not before starting
> investigation.

I took a look at Bugzilla, and the first thing I see is

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15212

which indicates that the compiler hasn't even bootstrapped on Interix in a
long time, though workarounds are proposed and a patch is given against a
4.2 snapshot.  It looks like no one has treated the platform as a
priority.  It's just a matter of not having a sufficiently motivated
volunteer, or else the sufficiently motivated volunteers are not
contributing their patches to gcc.gnu.org.

So, where are you getting your Interix gcc?  Are you using an FSF release,
or is someone trying to support a fork?