Eli Bendersky <eliben@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I'm experimenting with generating PIC and non-PIC code on x64 Ubuntu. > It's possible to generate non PIC code as follows: > > gcc -fno-PIC -mcmodel=large -shared -c file.c > > However, I noticed that for other models (i.e. -mcmodel=small, or by > default, without the -mcmodel argument), the code being generated is > not really suitable for PIC as it has problematic load-time > relocations. > > My question is - why is the large model required to generate true PIC code? It's odd to try to create PIC while using -fno-PIC. I think you must have some goal in mind for what you want your generated code to look like, but I don't know what that is. It most likely does not correspond to gcc's goal when using -fno-PIC, which is to not generate PIC. Ian
