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Re: Half-solved ? Re: Sparc code question, -fpic or -fPIC
- To: Richard Henderson <rth at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: Half-solved ? Re: Sparc code question, -fpic or -fPIC
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at upchuck dot cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 23:21:15 -0600
- cc: Marc Espie <espie at quatramaran dot ens dot fr>, egcs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <19990511221802.A17661@cygnus.com>you write:
> On Sat, May 08, 1999 at 11:10:03PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote:
> > a few arches, such as linux, linux-aout, or solaris, translate -fpic
> > to -K PIC for the assembler... and indeed, those offending relocs change
> > type in such a case...
> >
> > So there must have been someone who authored that change, mustn't there ?
>
> Huh? Sparc assemblers have required -K PIC since the beginning of time.
>
Yup. It goes further back than that The -K stuff predates sparcs. Sun first
used it for the m68k boxes 10 years ago.
jeff