Re: debian/patches review
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 03:25:36PM -0800, Jeff Bailey wrote:
Hi,
> I'm just taking a look at this patch - Is this to work around a
> toolchain bug?
Not a bug, a feature. ;)
> Why is this a problem on m68k and not anywhere else?
Because m68k is one of the very few platforms where there's actually a
difference between -fpic and -fPIC. Another one would be sparc, not sure
how they deal with it, but I guess that they have to compile everything in
glibc with -fPIC anyway since their GOT is even smaller than m68k's when
using -fpic. Anyway, see the gcc info docs (Code Gen Options) for
details.
-Michael
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