dumps of the intermediate compilation phases.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <option>-fPIC</option>
+ <indexterm><primary><option>-fPIC</option></primary></indexterm>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Generate position-independent code (code that can be put into
+ shared libraries). This currently works on Mac OS X; it works on
+ PowerPC Linux when using the native code generator (-fasm).
+ It is not quite ready to be used yet for x86 Linux.
+ On Windows, position-independent code is never used,
+ and on PowerPC64 Linux, position-independent code is always used,
+ so the flag is a no-op on those platforms.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <option>-dynamic</option>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>When generating code, assume that entities imported from a
+ different package will reside in a different shared library or
+ binary. This currently works on Mac OS X; it works on PowerPC Linux when
+ using the native code generator. As with <option>-fPIC</option>,
+ x86 Linux support is not quite ready yet. Windows is not supported,
+ and it is a no-op on PowerPC64 Linux.</para>
+ <para>Note that this option also causes GHC to use shared libraries
+ when linking.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect2>
</term>
<listitem>
<para>Tell the linker to use shared Haskell libraries, if
- available (this option is only supported on Windows at the
+ available (this option is only supported on Mac OS X at the
moment, and also note that your distribution of GHC may
not have been supplied with shared libraries).</para>
+ <para>Note that this option also has an effect on
+ code generation (see above).</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>