Re: what does -fno-pic do

2016-07-11 Thread Yubin Ruan
On 2016年07月11日 16:44, Mason wrote: On 10/07/2016 16:15, Yubin Ruan wrote: 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

Re: what does -fno-pic do ?

2016-07-10 Thread Jonathan Wakely
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 direc

what does -fno-pic do ?

2016-07-10 Thread Yubin Ruan
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 **-fpi