On Thu, 24 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> I have been trying to use egcs 1.1.2 (cross compiling on intel for strong arm)
> and have had lots of trouble when I use the -fpic flag
> to generate position independent code (for shared libraries).  Has anyone on
> this list tried this?  (I have had success without this
> flag).
> 
> Here is an example of a simple program which shows some bad code generated with
> the -fpic flag.
> 
> Who should I report this bug to?  Does anyone on this list have the know-how to
> find the cause of the problem?
> 
> Thanks in advance for all of your help,
> Hugh Morgenbesser

First thing is to forget about the -O flag. Optimization seems to fail in
an horribly amount of cases.

If you encounter problems with the runtime linker (something like
unexpected dynamic reloc type) use -fno-vtable-thunks - this means to
recompile the libstdc++ again which might not work without problems.


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