* config/arm/semi.h (ASM_SPEC): Pass -k to the assembler when

compiling PIC.

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk@39011 138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4

diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog
index 2dcb26b..9ada854 100644 (file)
--- a/gcc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2001-01-14  Richard Earnshaw  <rearnsha@arm.com>
+
+       * config/arm/semi.h (ASM_SPEC): Pass -k to the assembler when 
+       compiling PIC.
+
 2001-01-14  Kazu Hirata  <kazu@hxi.com>
 
        * config/h8300/h8300.c (get_shift_alg): Update comments.

diff --git a/gcc/config/arm/semi.h b/gcc/config/arm/semi.h
index 081b4c1..d258944 100644 (file)
--- a/gcc/config/arm/semi.h
+++ b/gcc/config/arm/semi.h
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /* Definitions of target machine for GNU compiler.  ARM on semi-hosted platform
-   Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-   Contributed by Richard Earnshaw (richard.earnshaw@armltd.co.uk)
+   Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   Contributed by Richard Earnshaw (richard.earnshaw@arm.com)
 
 This file is part of GNU CC.
 
@@ -39,8 +39,16 @@ Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.  */
 #define SUBTARGET_EXTRA_ASM_SPEC
 #endif
 
+/* The compiler supports PIC code generation, even though the binutils
+   may not.  If we are asked to compile position independent code, we
+   always pass -k to the assembler.  If it doesn't recognize it, then
+   it will barf, which probably means that it doesn't know how to
+   assemble PIC code.  This is what we want, since otherwise tools
+   may incorrectly assume we support PIC compilation even if the
+   binutils can't.  */
 #ifndef ASM_SPEC
 #define ASM_SPEC "\
+%{fpic: -k} %{fPIC: -k} \
 %{mbig-endian:-EB} \
 %{mcpu=*:-m%*} \
 %{march=*:-m%*} \