[U-Boot] [PATCH] PowerPC: Change -fpic flag to -fPIC flag in the config.mk

Wolfgang Denk
2012-04-18T06:03:56Z

Dear Chunhe Lan,

In message <1334719161-3500-1-git-send-email-Chunhe.Lan@freescale.com> you wrote:
> The -fPIC/-fpic flag belongs with -mrelocatable. The -fpic flag can
> limit the size of the GOT and produce smaller binaries, so it causes
> some GOT entries to be lost in the gcc 4.6 version. But -fPIC flag
> allows the maximum possible size of the GOT entries.
>
> However, currently -mrelocatable promotes -fpic flag to -fPIC flag.
>
> This reverts that portion of the
> commit 33ee4c92339ee386662c0ee2d221098c5cc8b07e.

As you state yourself, your modification has the negative impact of
increasing the image size. What would be the benefits of it?

Are you trying to fix any specific problem? Which one? I am not aware
of any related isses for any of the mainline PowerPC systems...

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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