GCC and position-indepentent code

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From: Paul Graham
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1992 17:35

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I am building a shared library on Sun* OS4.*.  According to the Sun manual,
the input object files must be position-independent, that is, all references
to local data must be pc-relative (so I understand).  Sun cc provides the
'-pic' switch to produce position-independent output.  This can be verified
at link time with the '-assert pure-text' switch.  Object files created by
gcc do not satisfy the 'pure-text' assertion.  Does gcc provide some
equivalent of the '-pic' switch?

Thanks

Paul Graham	paulg@clsi.com

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