On Sat, 2015-10-03 at 00:50 -0400, Rich Felker wrote: > I have -mfdpic in the self-specs when FDPIC_DEFAULT is defined, so I > think only the positive form is needed.
Having positive and negative forms for options makes sense. It usually costs nothing because anyway the compiler internally supports both and it allows special-casing if one of them is the default, which can be useful for testing. Cheers, Oleg