Subject: Re: GCC to retire VAX support!?
To: Eric Smith <eric@brouhaha.com>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 06/20/2002 16:50:05
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 04:31:14PM -0700, Eric Smith wrote:

 > Presumably all the changes that were made to GCC since then were done
 > because someone somewhere wanted them, and believes that they do "give
 > back" enough.  If those people want something different than what you
 > want, why use "their" version of GCC?

Older versions of GCC for VAX don't support PIC code generation.  Kiss
your shared libraries good bye.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>