RE: Problem on rs6000-ibm-aix4.3.2.0 (Fortran) -DPIC

[Boehne, Robert]

Simon,

I think you can ignore inline assembler for anything other than
C (including C++).  I've never thought about it, but inline assembler
in Fortran code sounds truly frightening!  Anyway, if it was so
important, why doesn't the compiler define it for you?

Robert

-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Richter [mailto:address@hidden]
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 5:46 PM
To: Boehne, Robert
Cc: 'Simon Richter'; address@hidden
Subject: Re: Problem on rs6000-ibm-aix4.3.2.0 (Fortran) -DPIC

Robert,

> Ok then, I'll see if I can make "-DPIC" into
> a conditionally-set thing that would be set to "" for anything
> but C and C++.  Can we agree on that? ;)

Yes, although it would be nice if the other languages also had a way of
knowing they should emit PIC, at least if they allow conditional
compilation and/or inline assembler (the most prominent being assembler
itself -- I don't know whether everyone uses the gcc frontend to
assemble stuff).

   Simon

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