Bug#100346: seconding this proposal

2001-07-31 Thread Raul Miller
On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 11:31:28AM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote: > Hmm... you may have missed the case distinction. -fPIC and -fpic are > both flags which do approximately the same thing, but -fpic did not > work right on some architectures. I don't think I ever heard the > details. I remember

Bug#100346: seconding this proposal

2001-07-31 Thread Richard Braakman
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 06:43:44PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 12:25:34AM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote: > > How much of a C reference is it? > > It's gcc specific, is it not? Yes but gcc has a shared backend for multiple languages :-) It wouldn't surprise me if they al

Bug#100346: seconding this proposal

2001-07-31 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 12:25:34AM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 03:03:23PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > > | The shared version must be compiled with -fPIC, and the static version > > must > > | not be. In other words, each *.c file will need to be compiled twice. > >