> 
> Obvioulsly gas has to be modified.  What about gcc?  Is it really
> quietly accepting -fpic and not doing the right thing?  (at least it
> calls as with -k)
> 
Yes, you got it :-) -fpic sets a flag in gcc which should be checked
by the machine-dependent code to generate those GOT offsets etc...
But there are no offset table support in the vax gcc version, so gcc
just quietly accepts it and nothing happens.

-- Ragge