On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Nick Hudson wrote:

: > Yes, I've noticed this too. Perhaps there are reasons - parts of it
: > needed in early startup? Is there a problem with libgcc linked in
: > statically? Is it supposed to make a difference from the symbol
: > scope POV?
:
: Mixing PIC and non-PIC seems to cause problems only on some
: architectures, eg. sparc see PR/8669.

You're thinking of mixing -fpic and -fPIC, which does not work on sparc.
If libgcc is compiled -fPIC, it can be linked with a standard non-PIC
executable just fine.

I'm considering adding a PIC version of libgcc as a shared object, since
that's already done by gcc 2.95.x+.  That doesn't have the -fpic/-fPIC
problem (it's a separate .so) and will get pulled in automatically only for
"cc -shared".

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