Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 21:11:48 +0200 (CEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> To: eivind@yes.no (Eivind Eklund) Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Switching default compiler (was Re: Fix for undefined "__error" and discussion of shared object versioning) Message-ID: <199805261911.VAA23526@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <19980526204145.65179@follo.net> from Eivind Eklund at "May 26, 98 08:41:45 pm"
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In reply to Eivind Eklund who wrote:
> 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.
No, its the same thing....
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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