Re: question about -fPIC and 32-bit x86 (on linux-elf)

[Arkadiusz Pawlik <apawlik at V-LO dot krakow dot pl>]

Thank you for your answers and sorry for asking off-topic questions.
I just wanted to be sure that everything what could be shared is 
actually shared.

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> Arkadiusz Pawlik <apawlik@V-LO.krakow.pl> writes:
>
> > Is executable's code prelinked to some specific base address shared by all
> > applications? (my concern applies mainly to GNU/Linux on x86)
>
> Program binaries are always loaded to a fixed address as specified in the
> header.
>
> Andreas.
>
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