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From: sgccseh@citec.oz.au (Steve Hocking)
Subject: Re: [386BSD] gcc2 and -fPIC
Organization: CITEC
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 03:31:41 GMT
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cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes:

>anybody gotten code compiled w/gcc2's -fPIC to assemble properly
>(or "at all") under 386bsd?

>if so, could you tell me what i'm doing wrong?

>gcc -c -fPIC -O foo.c
>just won't do it for me... 8-)

	Gas isnt up to handling some of the special requirements of PIC code
(something to do with certain psuedo ops I think) You'll need to hack GAS as
well if you're trying to get shared libs going (as well as ld).

>Chris G. Demetriou                                    cgd@cs.berkeley.edu

>"Sometimes it is better to have twenty million instructions by
>        Friday than twenty million instructions per second." -- Wes Clark
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Stephen Hocking                                    sgccseh@citecuc.citec.oz.au