On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 17:04 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote: > gcc/testsuite/lib/target-supports.exp checks whether the compiler spits > out any messages when using -fpic/-fPIC; this doesn't cover the case > where the compiler happily processes everything, but the linker cannot > deal with the result (in the given case, because the specific gas (x86) in > use accepts @ as a normal symbol character, and hence the usual > <symbol>@<operator> syntax doesn't yield the expected result; note > that the target doesn't really need PIC code, not does it support TLS, > thus all the constructs are really meaningless). > > Should the testsuite not instead do a test whether all involved tools > are able to handle -fPIC and its results)? Or should the target simply > disallow -fPIC (and if so, how is that supposed to be done)?
Procedure check_effective_target_fpic invokes check_no_compiler_messages with "object" but you want it to use "executable" instead. The support is there, try changing the call and see if it works for you. Janis
