PATCH: Enable PIC for mips*-*-*

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, H . J . Lu wrote:

> >  Please note that while linking PDC into a shared library technically does
> > work for a number of systems, the resulting library is not shared anymore
> > as it contains dynamic relocations in its text segment.  Actually I recall
> > a nice comment on relocations in text that was once sent by Roland McGrath
> > here...  Search the archive using "goat" and "relocations" keywords. ;-) 
> 
> I have to ask, what is PDC? In any case, linking against an archive

 Position dependent code (as opposed to PIC).

> when building a shared library has to work under Linux. It is how
> libgcc.a is used when building a shared library. If it doesn't work
> for certain platforms, it has to be fixed.

 Libgcc must then be build as PIC explicitly (which it supposedly is). 
The drawback is slower code.  I don't know if the drawback is acceptable
for liberty -- possibly it is, but it must be explicitly arranged this
way. 

  Maciej

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