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Re: misleading statement in bugs.html#known

From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
To: Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>
Cc: Geoff Keating <geoffk at redhat dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 15:41:06 -0800
Subject: Re: misleading statement in bugs.html#known
References: <3C0E8E95.20202@bothner.com> <jmitblz67i.fsf@geoffk.org> <3C0FD1BF.6000709@bothner.com>

On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 12:14:55PM -0800, Per Bothner wrote:
> Ugh.  Ick.  This is unfortunate mechanism, not that I know enough
> about dynamic linking to know if there is (or could be) a better
> way.  But it seems we're stuck with it.

The "better way" is defaulting to PIC for any symbol not known
to be defined locally.  We do this on Alpha and IA-64.  It's not
really practical to do the same for x86 though.  :-/

r~

References:
- misleading statement in bugs.html#known
  - From: Per Bothner
- Re: misleading statement in bugs.html#known
  - From: Geoff Keating
- Re: misleading statement in bugs.html#known
  - From: Per Bothner

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