does linux -fPIC/eh do so poorly?

[Robert Lipe]

Can one of you guys with a current EGCS  on Linux try something for me?
I haven't been able to do a 'make check' for over a month, and I'm trying
to figure out if something is broken on other x86 elf/unix targets, or if
it's unique to OpenServer.   I also can't tell if I'm just the only one
masochistic enough to make another pass over all the testsuites with -fPIC
or not.  When I last ran the tests around mid Jan, this didn't happen.

In your gcc directory, type

	 make check-g++ RUNTESTFLAGS="--tool_opts -fPIC old-deja.exp=eh*"

                === g++ Summary ===

# of expected passes            66
# of unexpected failures        37
/home/play/negcs/gcc/testsuite/../xgcc version egcs-2.91.08 980214 (gcc-2.8.0 re
lease)



If I lose the -fPIC, I see much better numbers.

	                === g++ Summary ===

# of expected passes            103


It looks like all the EH tests with -fPIC drop core.


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