Re: -DPIC - redundant?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:

> Kevin F. Quinn wrote:

> > Apologies if this is a stupid question, but please could someone 
> > explain to me why libtool sets '-DPIC' for shared libraries, while 
> > gcc reliably defines '__PIC__' when it generates PIC code? 
> > Setting '-DPIC' encourages people to do '#ifdef PIC' when surely 
> > '#ifdef __PIC__' would be more reliable.
>
> Libtool supports plenty more compilers than just gcc.

I recall from discussions a couple of years ago that this define is 
even used from within some Fortran code.

Bob
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