[Bug target/6123] __pic__/__PIC__ not defined when -fpic/-fPIC is specified

[amodra at bigpond dot net dot au]

------- Additional Comments From amodra at bigpond dot net dot au  2004-11-10 05:13 -------
No, actually not the next day, but a few days later.  Incidentally, the (a) and
(b) are from an earlier reply of mine on this subject:

On most other targets, -fpic, ie. flag_pic, means two things:
a) generate PIC code, and
b) generate code suitable for ELF shared libraries.
I'll not argue the wisdom of -fpic meaning two things, but that's just
how things evolved.  On PowerPC64, code generation is always PIC, but we
don't want the overhead of meeting shared library run-time symbol
resolution requirements when generating application code.  Thus, we
don't want to set flag_pic all the time.



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