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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA147 ; Thu, 28 Jan 93 22:02:18 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!darwin.sura.net!bogus.sura.net!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!cbnewsk!cbnewsj!dwex From: dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat) Subject: Re: [386BSD] gcc2 and -fPIC Organization: AT&T Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:36:44 GMT Message-ID: <1993Jan27.193644.16032@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> References: <1993Jan27.002600.21136@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov> <1993Jan27.044627.2756@serval.net.wsu.edu> <1993Jan27.172321.14231@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov> Lines: 32 In article <1993Jan27.172321.14231@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov> kaleb@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley) writes: > > >|> Gcc doesn't grok PIC on any 386 machine, period, e.g. Sun 386i -- at > > > >You haven't try -fPIC -O on libg++-2.3 yet. > > > >|> least that's what I was told when I asked gnu.gcc.help. There are patches > >|> out there to make gcc generate PIC on 386. > > > >Those patches are for psudo PIC for SVR3. I don't care SVR3. I want ELF. > > Actually the patches I'm referring to are for SunOS on Sun386i, which > is actually COFF. At the risk of repeating myself, gcc itself doesn't > yet support PIC on any 386, irrespective of anything else. > Hmm. That's odd. I've been building X11R5 shared libraries on Microport SVR4 on an i486 box for about a year, using 'gcc -fPIC'. Works very well, thank you. GCC DOES support PIC on a 386, if your OS supports it. > > -- > > Kaleb Keithley kaleb@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov > -- David Wexelblat <dwex@mtgzfs3.att.com> (908) 957-5871 AT&T Bell Laboratories, 200 Laurel Ave - 3F-428, Middletown, NJ 07748 "The meaning of life? That's simple. Try to be happy, try not to hurt other people, and hope to fall in love." -- Mallory Keaton