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On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 03:55:09AM +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> It is.  Yet I wouldn't like to assign a different meaning to -fpic and
> -fPIC as most makefiles make little difference between these two options,
> so that would imply quite some overhead.

There is already such a difference.  Sparc uses 13-bit GOT offsets
with -fpic and 32-bit offsets with -fPIC.  I'm considering changes
to Alpha to use a 16/32 split for pic/PIC.


r~