Vagueness and inconsistency in -shared -fPIC -fpic -pie option descriptions

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 11:21 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 6:12 PM, Britton Kerin > wrote: >> I can't tell from the manual if -fPIC is safe for executable programs, >> or only for libraries. >> >> I want to use -fPIC or -fPIE

Fwd: gold --incremental not producing DWARF such that nm can handle it, internal error

I'm forwarding this because it sounds useful. I'd love to see nm and addr2line work correctly with things produce using the gold linker. On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 11:54 AM, Cary Coutant wrote: >> * --incremental gold produces binaries st nm --line-numbers complains like >>

[Bug ld/17334] building gcc-4.5.4 hits BFD (GNU Binutils) 2.25 assertion fail elf32-bfin.c:4457

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17334 --- Comment #10 from wbx at openadk dot org --- Hi, yes, this change works for me. Tested with binutils 2.26 and git. best regards Waldemar -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.

[Bug ld/19803] gc-sections breaks PE DLL variable export

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19803 --- Comment #20 from martin.koegler at chello dot at --- (In reply to Nick Clifton from comment #19) > > In my option, this change is not necessary, as it just would hides broken > > symbols in the export library. > > Actually I think that