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

Thu Aug 12 16:54:00 GMT 2004

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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