[PATCH] S390: Use fPIC to avoid R_390_GOT12 relocation in gcrt1.o with march=z900.

[Stefan Liebler]

On 04/27/2016 12:01 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Stefan Liebler <stli@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
>
>> According to the s390-Makefiles, -fpic is used. This patch removes the
>> overrides of pic-ccflag and the default pic-ccflag = -fPIC in Makeconfig
>> is used instead to get the R_390_GOTENT relocations in gcrt1.o.
>
> Alternatively, you could override -fpic only for gmon-start.os, to keep
> a possible performance advantage for the rest.
>
> Andreas.
>
As it has no effect for newer architecture levels and
for older levels the effect is overall +/-0,
I would prefer the switch to -fPIC.

Bye
Stefan