On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 19:53 +0200, Rainer Orth wrote: > * For IA64 HP-UX, there's a claim that -fPIC is necessary despite PIC > code being the default. I could find no hint in trunk that this is > true any longer.
Rainer, If I recall correctly the issue for -fPIC on IA64 HP-UX is to turn on flag_shlib. If you don't use -fPIC, flag_shlib is not set and function FOO in a shared library may get inlined into function BAR or function BAR may generate a direct call to FOO that cannot be overwritten by a definition of function FOO coming from outside the shared library. Setting flag_shlib should be the only difference between using or not using -fPIC on IA64 HP-UX. Steve Ellcey s...@cup.hp.com
