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Date:      Tue, 26 May 1998 20:41:45 +0200
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Switching default compiler (was Re: Fix for undefined "__error" and discussion of shared object versioning)
Message-ID:  <19980526204145.65179@follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <199805261840.MAA07456@mt.sri.com>; from Nate Williams on Tue, May 26, 1998 at 12:40:15PM -0600
References:  <356a9f0a.251653824@mail.cetlink.net> <199805261659.LAA19904@dyson.iquest.net> <19980526194334.44185@follo.net> <199805261750.LAA07058@mt.sri.com> <19980526201549.35268@follo.net> <199805261840.MAA07456@mt.sri.com>

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On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 12:40:15PM -0600, Nate Williams wrote:
> Eivind Eklund writes:
> > On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 11:50:53AM -0600, Nate Williams wrote:
> > > > Personally I'd prefer to use TenDRA if at all possible.  It seems to
> > > > be much better than GCC when you look at error control etc.
> > > 
> > > Can it do shlibs?
> > 
> > I don't know - is there much special it would have to do?
> 
> Generating PIC code is a big prerequisite, so the assembly it generates
> must be capable of being relocated.  I'm not 100% sure if this is a
> function of the compiler, but given that GCC1 couldn't do it and GCC2
> could, I suspect it's a function of the compiler.

It can do PIC for ELF on Linux.  I suspect this means that we can make
it do PIC for ELF on FreeBSD, too.  I don't know if making it do PIC
for a.out would be significantly different.

Eivind.

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