Hi,
I am reading some OS kernel codes, and I find that in the Makefile
used to build the kernel, there is a **-fno-pic** flag. I totally don't
understand what that mean. I try to find some description from the man
pages but can find no direct description about that flag(same for the
**-fpic** flags). All I can find is something like:
For Darwin, only the -m64 option also turns off the -fno-pic and
-mdynamic-no-pic options.
blah blah blah....
I try to google it but it seems that people rarely discuss it on
the Web.
Does the **pic** in that flag represent Programmable Interrupt
Controller that is used by the kernel the control interrupts to CPU ?
If it is, why no pic ? what does it really mean ?
And, in addition, what would that flag influence the layout of the
kernel image ?
Thanks,
Ruan.
