------- 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. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6123
