about -fpic/-fPIC option for gcc

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Lin George <george4academic@yahoo.com> writes:

> 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.

Using -fpic will not affect the debugging information.

The difference between -fpic and -fPIC is that some large programs
will fail to link if you use -fpic.  All programs will link if you use
-fPIC.

Ian