Position Indepedent Code for Nios

Hmmm...

1) Actually you can select 'little endian' on the Nios cpu hidden config menu - I don't know if it works.

However the Avalon bus is big endian, so other things probably wouldn't be right - at best they would be confusing.

2) At a guess it is just difficult to get the code linked correctly. This seems to be a reason to make it difficult to select position independant code, but I can't think why it should be disabled completely. There might be people who are able to sort out the environment to make it work well enough for the code they need to compile.