Re: [Patch] ld testsuite: Fix some FAILs caused by missing -fpic.

[nick clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>]

Hi David, Daney

> > How old is "very old" ?
>
> GCC-4.2 and earlier.

> > If "very old" actually includes any of the 4.x versions of gcc then I
> > would be inclined to say that a better fix would be to check the gcc
> > version number and only omit "-fpic" if it is not needed.
>
> That is too much work.

No it's not.  See the attached patch for a suggestion of how to do this.

> Although I haven't tested it, supplying -fpic
> will not break anything in any GCC version I know about. I think
> GCC-2.95 and later should be fine with this, certainly any GCC-4.x and
> later compiler can handle -fpic.

If passing -fpic to gcc was not a problem for the mips compiler then why 
were these special tests added to the linker test harness in the first 
place ?

Cheers
  Nick

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