[PATCH 06/27] gdb/testsuite: Don't pass -fPIC on PE/COFF targets
Pedro Alves <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:00:57 +0100
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gdb.patches |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
'-fPIC' is not needed for any PE/COFF-based target. We were passing
'-fPIC' on mingw and cygwin, and it works there because GCC and Clang
simply ignore that option for those targets (to ease portability), but
Clang for x86_64-pc-windows-msvc isn't as forgiving:
error: unsupported option '-fPIC' for target 'x86_64-pc-windows-msvc'
Originally, gdb.exp wasn't passing -fPIC on cygwin/mingw, but it
started doing that with commit 2f4132646d8 ("[gdb/testsuite] Don't
pass -fPIC to gdb_compile_shlib"). Before that commit,
gdb_compile_shlib added -fpic on the platforms that need it, but added
nothing in some cases (cygwin, mingw and pe, and the unknown-compiler
fallback), and the individual testcases papered over that by passing
additional_flags=-fPIC unconditionally themselves. That commit moved
the -fPIC from the testcase calls to gdb_compile_shlib, adding it in
exactly those previously-empty cases, which is how cygwin and mingw
ended up being passed -fPIC even though they don't need it.
Change-Id: I6883bc14381883eac3ee825a65ef67ed26bcadce
---
gdb/testsuite/lib/gdb.exp | 47 ++++++++++++++++++---------------------
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/lib/gdb.exp b/gdb/testsuite/lib/gdb.exp
index db22d2bc320..25f01ed9727 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/lib/gdb.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/lib/gdb.exp
@@ -7226,35 +7226,32 @@ proc gdb_compile_shlib_1 {sources dest options} {
set info_options "c"
}
- switch -glob [test_compiler_info "" ${info_options}] {
- "xlc-*" {
- lappend obj_options "additional_flags=-qpic"
- }
- "clang-*" {
- if { [istarget "*-*-cygwin*"]
- || [istarget "*-*-mingw*"] } {
- lappend obj_options "additional_flags=-fPIC"
- } else {
- lappend obj_options "additional_flags=-fpic"
+ if { [is_pecoff_target] } {
+ # Nothing needed, PE targets always compile all code as
+ # position-independent.
+ } else {
+ switch -glob [test_compiler_info "" ${info_options}] {
+ "xlc-*" {
+ lappend obj_options "additional_flags=-qpic"
}
- }
- "gcc-*" {
- if { [istarget "powerpc*-*-aix*"]
- || [istarget "rs6000*-*-aix*"]
- || [istarget "*-*-cygwin*"]
- || [istarget "*-*-mingw*"]
- || [istarget "*-*-pe*"] } {
- lappend obj_options "additional_flags=-fPIC"
- } else {
+ "clang-*" {
lappend obj_options "additional_flags=-fpic"
}
- }
- "icc-*" {
+ "gcc-*" {
+ if { [istarget "powerpc*-*-aix*"]
+ || [istarget "rs6000*-*-aix*"] } {
+ lappend obj_options "additional_flags=-fPIC"
+ } else {
+ lappend obj_options "additional_flags=-fpic"
+ }
+ }
+ "icc-*" {
lappend obj_options "additional_flags=-fpic"
- }
- default {
- # don't know what the compiler is...
- lappend obj_options "additional_flags=-fPIC"
+ }
+ default {
+ # don't know what the compiler is...
+ lappend obj_options "additional_flags=-fPIC"
+ }
}
}
--
2.54.0