Re: [ROOT] Compiler question (offtopic?)

From: Jiri Masik (masik@pc203b.fzu.cz)
Date: Sat Aug 18 2001 - 19:25:52 MEST


Thomas Bretz <tbretz@uni-sw.gwdg.de> writes:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm wondering what the advantage of using
> -pipe -fPIC
> on a gcc-system is?
> 
> -pipe seems to be for compiling speed reasons, but -fPIC?
> 
> Thanks
> Thomas.

Hi,

-fPIC instructs compiler to generate code (position independent code)
to be used in shared libraries.

        Jiri



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