From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3463 invoked by alias); 6 Dec 2001 23:41:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 3372 invoked from network); 6 Dec 2001 23:41:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO dot.cygnus.com) (205.180.230.224) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 6 Dec 2001 23:41:11 -0000 Received: (from rth@localhost) by dot.cygnus.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) id fB6Nf6l09646; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 15:41:06 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: dot.cygnus.com: rth set sender to rth@redhat.com using -f Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 15:48:00 -0000 From: Richard Henderson To: Per Bothner Cc: Geoff Keating , gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: misleading statement in bugs.html#known Message-ID: <20011206154106.A9641@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Richard Henderson , Per Bothner , Geoff Keating , gcc@gcc.gnu.org References: <3C0E8E95.20202@bothner.com> <3C0FD1BF.6000709@bothner.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3C0FD1BF.6000709@bothner.com>; from per@bothner.com on Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 12:14:55PM -0800 X-SW-Source: 2001-12/txt/msg00329.txt.bz2 On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 12:14:55PM -0800, Per Bothner wrote: > Ugh. Ick. This is unfortunate mechanism, not that I know enough > about dynamic linking to know if there is (or could be) a better > way. But it seems we're stuck with it. The "better way" is defaulting to PIC for any symbol not known to be defined locally. We do this on Alpha and IA-64. It's not really practical to do the same for x86 though. :-/ r~