On 10 July 2016 at 15:18, Yubin Ruan wrote: > 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).
Look harder: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-6.1.0/gcc/Code-Gen-Options.html#index-fpic-1190 Please use the gcc-help list for questions like this, this list is for discussion the development of gcc itself, not for questions about using gcc.
