On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 11:31:28AM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote: > Hmm... you may have missed the case distinction. -fPIC and -fpic are > both flags which do approximately the same thing, but -fpic did not > work right on some architectures. I don't think I ever heard the > details. I remember trying to find out in order to write a Lintian > check for it :)
Hmm, you're right, I was ignoring case. info gcc documents that -fpic uses a global offset table, which is limited in size on some architectures <quote> (These maximums are 16k on the m88k, 8k on the Sparc, and 32k on the m68k and RS/6000. The 386 has no such limit.) </quote> Thanks, -- Raul
