[m-rev.] for pre-commit review: workaround Mantis bug #453

[Peter Wang]

On Mon, 20 Jan 2020 15:42:38 +1100 (AEDT), Julien Fischer <jfischer at opturion.com> wrote:
> 
> i*86 isn't that important of a platform any more that it warrents
> spending more time on it.  For non-debugging, non-deep profiling
> programs users are better off with hlc.gc; it's faster anyway.

Right.

Still, I thought of something: Windows doesn't use PIC for dynamic
linking. We don't support building DLLs yet, but --enable-dynamic-link
is on by default. I didn't want to mess with the configure script
so I've just left an XXX.

Peter