disambiguate position-independent code and position-independent executable

[Peng Yu via Gcc-help <gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

As written on Wikipedia, PIC and PIE seems to be synonymous.

"In computing, position-independent code[1] (PIC[1]) or
position-independent executable (PIE)[2] is ..."

https://dev.gentoo.org/~vapier/crt.txt

But according to the above page, they seem to be different. Could
anybody explain what is the difference between them?

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Regards,
Peng