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RE: current hpux status
- To: 'Alexandre Oliva' <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Subject: RE: current hpux status
- From: David Korn <dkorn at pixelpower dot com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 17:31:02 -0000
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Alexandre Oliva [mailto:aoliva@redhat.com]
>Sent: 26 January 2001 17:21
>>> libsupc++ must be PIC for the same reasons as libgcc.
>> Can you point me at a summary of those reasons (in the libgcc case)?
>
>So that you can link shared libraries with libsupc++ and libgcc.
>
>If the platform doesn't support PIC or shared libraries, you shouldn't
>get PIC, though.
Thank you very much :) The config/rs6000 assumes at the moment that
all platforms support shared libs, so I feel confident that I've chosen
a valid solution. (If there's ever a 2.95.4, I may even submit a patch! :)
DaveK
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