https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119386
--- Comment #40 from Alexander Monakov <amonakov at gcc dot gnu.org> --- > In Linux, we don't even bother with PIC codegen, even though we link with > -pie. Earlier you said that building with -fPIC may be desirable, and your patch was dealing with PIC codegen in GCC for mcount. To me, there's now a contradiction.