I believe shared library/PIC is broken under ia32 since Aug. 29.

Joern Rennecke amylaar@cygnus.co.uk
Mon Sep 4 03:47:00 GMT 2000


> It is too bad that not many gcc developers using --enable-shared to
> configure gcc under ia32. See

Well, on Linux, gdb fails to restart a cc1 / cc1plus executable that is
statically linked, which makes debugging very tedious.
So I always patch my Makefile to use static linking.


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