Re: -fpic, -fpic -mpcrel, -fPIC, ... what to use for m68000?

[Don Quixote de la Mancha <quixote at dulcineatech dot com>]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 2:53 AM, Simon Ferber
<simon.ferber@tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
> I am trying to build a cross toolchain for a plain Motorola m68000.
...
> I have tried to build everything with "-fPIC" as well as with "-fpic" and
> "-fpic -mpcrel". I never seem to get a toolchain, which is able to produce
> pic code above 64k of size.
...
> Shouldn't be the -fPIC the right option? As I understand, -fpic produces
> code for 16-bit wide entries in the _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_, which is not
> enough for bigger programs. That's why one should use -fPIC. What why does
> this option fail as well?

Do large Position Independent Code modules require trampolines to call
far-away addresses?  That's the case with Thumb.  I don't know either
way; it's been so many years since I've worked with 68k.
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