Am Sonntag April 30 2006 11:06 schrieb J?rg Wendel: > On Sonntag 30 April 2006 10:50, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > > Darren Salt wrote: > > > I demand that Klaus Schmidinger may or may not have written... > > > > > > [snip] > > > > > >> Apparently PIC is only available on special processors, especially > > >> *not* Intel, [...] > > > > > > False. You need -fPIC for libraries on ARM, which means that you need > > > it on XScale - and that's an Intel processor... > > > > I looked up the -fPIC option in "Using and Porting GNU CC", > > version 2.95, where it says on page 110: > > > > "This option makes a difference on the m68k, m88k, and the Sparc." > > > > Well, that manual is a little old, so maybe that information is > > outdated... > > > > Klaus > > the same hint is still included in the manpage of "gcc (GCC) 4.0.2" > > -fPIC > If supported for the target machine, emit position-independent > code, suitable for dynamic linking and avoiding any limit on the > size of the global offset table. This option makes a difference > on the m68k, PowerPC and SPARC. > Position-independent code requires special support, and therefore > works only on certain machines. > > i my idea is likewise that it doesn't care on Intel systems. Nope, you must read "This option makes a difference on the m68k, PowerPC and SPARC." in contrast to -fpic. -fPIC results to same code as -fpic on x86. -- (?= =?) //\ Prakash Punnoor /\\ V_/ \_V -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 190 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/attachments/20060430/482f4c28/attachment.pgp
