what does -fno-pic do ?

[Jonathan Wakely]

On 10 July 2016 at 15:18, Yubin Ruan wrote:
> Hi,
>     I am reading some OS kernel codes, and I find that in the Makefile used
> to build the kernel, there is a **-fno-pic** flag. I totally don't
> understand what that mean. I try to find some description from the man pages
> but can find no direct description about that flag(same for the **-fpic**
> flags).

Look harder:
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-6.1.0/gcc/Code-Gen-Options.html#index-fpic-1190

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