about -fpic/-fPIC option for gcc

Lin George george4academic@yahoo.com
Tue Sep 19 05:00:00 GMT 2006


Thank you Ian,


I think if -fpic will generate less information than
-fPIC in GOT, we will be impacted by such information
when develop/debug?? For example, missing some symbol
names will make debugger fail to find
function/variable names.


regards,
George

--- Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:

> Lin George <george4academic@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> > What materials
> > are stored in GOT?
> 
> There is some variation among platforms, but
> normally each entry in
> the GOT is the addresses of a global variable.
> 
> > Any documents describe it in a
> > simple/clear/brief way? :-)
> 
> The ELF processor-specific supplement for the
> processor you are using.
> 
> Ian
> 


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