PIC and -shared questions

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From: Mickey Mestel
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 00:00

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i have a situation where we are compiling with the -shared option as we are 
building dynamic libraries, but also need the -fPIC option for purify, (at
least it seems so, i'm trying to find a way around this).

can anyone give me a better description of what these options do exactly?  
i've been able to glean a bit from the man pages, but what does the -shared
option really do?  and what exactly is position independent code?  i assumed
from what little i know of it, that this is what dynamic code is all about.

any thoughts/comments/revelations?

	mickm

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