On 19 August 2015 at 09:10, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Under Cygwin, GCC prints out the following warning and the head of > each file it compiles when using -fPIC. > > I want to avoid removing PIC because its not clear to me when PIE may > (or may not) be automatically present. That is, users of older > platforms may not have it by default. That warning has been there since well before 2003 (I couldn't be bothered tracing the history back past a file rename in 2003). I doubt anyone is using versions of Cygwin older than that anyway. > What is the -Wno-XXX used to disable the warning? There isn't one. >How do I suppress > the extraneous output? Don't use -fPIC on Cygwin.
