A very "strange" bug in gcc 2.96

[Alexandre Oliva]

On May 22, 2000, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> wrote:

> "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:
>> * config/tc-i386.c (md_estimate_size_before_relax): Don't
>> relax external symbols.

> Any change must be conditional based on a flag (which should be off by
> default).  If you simply generate long references you make it
> impossible to write good code.

Yup.  This must be the reason why Solaris' assembler supports the
option `-K PIC'.

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