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

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
To: Arkadiusz Pawlik <apawlik at V-LO dot krakow dot pl>
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 18:51:28 +0200
Subject: Re: question about -fPIC and 32-bit x86 (on linux-elf)
References: <411B1E15.1070106@tpgi.com.au> <jeekmchdwv.fsf@sykes.suse.de><Pine.LNX.4.60.0408121810200.7135@august.V-LO.krakow.pl>

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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