2.9.1 gas, PowerPC, and PIC

Ian Lance Taylor ian@zembu.com
Thu Jul 1 00:00:00 GMT 1999


   Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 15:39:40 -0500 (CDT)
   From: Thomas A Peterson <tap@htc.honeywell.com>

   It looks like gas does not support PIC for the PowerPC. Can someone
   clue me in on how big of an effort it would be to add PIC support to
   gas for the PowerPC.

Gas certainly does support PIC for PowerPC ELF.  What makes you say
that it does not?

Note that PowerPC code tends to be position independent by its very
nature.  What it means for gas to support PIC for PowerPC ELF is that
it supports the generation of various special relocation types.

Ian


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