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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 12:10:57 +1100
From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
Subject: Re: ccc vs. libtool
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To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
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On 2001-Mar-20 21:27:36 +0000, Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:
>1. Position-independent code?
>
>What's the situation regarding PIC on alpha?

My impression from the Alpha documentation is that Alpha code is
PIC by default, hence there's no explicit PIC option.

>2. Detecting ccc?
>
>In order to properly patch libtool, I need to detect that the
>compiler is ccc.  I'd hate to do this by name only.  Is there an
>equivalent to gcc's __GNUC__ define?

According the Compaq CC on Tru64, __DECC works.

[BTW: gcc may be slow and generate bad code, but it provides a far
more useful set of warnings than ccc].

Peter

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