On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 03:55:09AM +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote: > It is. Yet I wouldn't like to assign a different meaning to -fpic and > -fPIC as most makefiles make little difference between these two options, > so that would imply quite some overhead. There is already such a difference. Sparc uses 13-bit GOT offsets with -fpic and 32-bit offsets with -fPIC. I'm considering changes to Alpha to use a 16/32 split for pic/PIC. r~