Thank you Ian! Could you provide a little more information please? I mean what is the different things generated by -fpic and -fPIC in a shared library? regards, George --- Ian Lance Taylor <iant@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Lin George <george4academic@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > I am confused about the meaning and function of > -fpic > > and -fPIC option of gcc. I am more confused when > after > > reading the manual of gcc (for example, what means > > PIC, GOT, constant addresses, etc.). Could anyone > > explain to me what are their functions in easy to > > understand words? > > If we could write it better, we would. > > Very short and incomplete version which may suffice > for your purposes: > the -fpic and -fPIC options are for generating code > that will be put > into a shared library on an ELF system. GNU/Linux > is an example of an > ELF system. > > Ian > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
