On Thu, 24 Aug 2000 Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no wrote:

: However, I think that libstdc++ also needs to be compiled -fPIC
: in that case, since for some reason it includes c++rt0.o on
: a.out,

Because libstdc++ has global/static constructors and destructors in it.

: (I'm still a little uncertain whether all shared libs used by an
: executable on sparc/a.out needs to use the same the same relocation --
: maybe not.)

No.  Only the objects linked into a single shared objects require the same
pic reloc size.

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