https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35014
Iain Sandoe <iains at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:
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Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED
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--- Comment #15 from Iain Sandoe <iains at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to Amir Shahmoradi from comment #14)
> It's not a bug but a popular requested feature. See, for example, the
> discussion here:
> https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/distribute-shared-libraries-or-not/
> 7532/1
OK - I will reopen - but really someone needs to propose a patch - otherwise
releases just go by.
> Are there any downsides to distributing PIC-enabled `libgfortran.a` on all
> platforms?
yes. For platforms that support non-pic user-space code (e.g. Linux) then this
would produce a performance penalty (since the PIC code is typically slower)
> For consistency, if this is the default behavior on macOS, it should be the
> default on all platforms.
I doubt that would be a general agreement.
If a given distribution (or use-case) needs the PIC version [and I can totally
see why that would be the case for embedding it in a plugin) - then perhaps a
suitable solution would be to introduce a specific configuration flag like
"--enable-pic-runtimes" or "--enable-pic-libgfortran"
