Hi, 1)Are all object files are relocatable??? http://ehuss.com/shared/ The above link says "To create a shared library, you write the code like you normally would. When you go to compile your code, you should indicate that the code needs to be "position independent". You do this with the gcc compile option "-fPIC". For example: gcc -fPIC -c my_library.c " 2) If we dont use -fPIC will the object file produced will not be relocatable?? 3) What exactly does relocatable code means? any links explaning it please. 4) Why do we need shared library when we can create object files which are relocatable?? 5)Why the size of shared library file(*.so) is very large than the object file from which it is produced?? Thanks in advance
