A very "strange" bug in gcc 2.96

[Richard Henderson]

On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 02:07:07PM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> What platforms are those?  (The MIPS requires PIC if you want to any
> dynamic linking at all, but I'm not aware of any platform which
> requires PIC for shared objects and only for shared objects.)

Sparc, Alpha, and IA-64 at a minimum adjust the compiler's notion
of the appropriate name binding rules depending on -fpic.

Some of it could potentially be done with linker relaxation instead,
however it would have to be extremely sophisticated to come close
to what the compiler can do.  I don't know about you, but I don't
want to build an instruction scheduler into the linker.


r~