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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: [386BSD] gcc2 and -fPIC
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In article <CGD.93Jan25211237@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes:
>anybody gotten code compiled w/gcc2's -fPIC to assemble properly
>(or "at all") under 386bsd?
>
>if so, could you tell me what i'm doing wrong?
>
>gcc -c -fPIC -O foo.c
>just won't do it for me... 8-)

Someone posted that they had a patched assembler a while back (your
assembler hates PIC -- that's why it fails).

I'll look for the article -- it's the kind of thing I save besides patches
and apps -- but you may want to hit one of the news archives instead.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@icarus.weber.edu
					terry_lambert@novell.com
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