Bug#100346: seconding this proposal

[Raul Miller <moth@debian.org>]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 11:31:28AM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote:
> Hmm... you may have missed the case distinction.  -fPIC and -fpic are
> both flags which do approximately the same thing, but -fpic did not
> work right on some architectures.  I don't think I ever heard the
> details.  I remember trying to find out in order to write a Lintian
> check for it :)

Hmm, you're right, I was ignoring case.

info gcc documents that -fpic uses a global offset table, which is
limited in size on some architectures

<quote>
(These maximums are 16k on the m88k, 8k on the Sparc, and 32k on the
m68k and RS/6000.  The 386 has no such limit.)
</quote>

Thanks,

-- 
Raul