PIC code

hey crew.

Working on a Cobalt box, I notice that gcc compiles EVERYTHING as if -fPIC has been requested.

1) Why?
2) Can this be changed?
3) Should this be changed?
4) How?
5) What effects would it have?

I have never seen ld complain about linking PIC and non-PIC code before...

Thanks (pardon my ignorance - I am 4 days old with MIPS Linux :)

Tim

Greetings, all. I know this is probably premature, but when the O2 port gets going, I just want y'all to know I have an O2 machine here which is ready to be exploited. Thx.

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In message <[email protected]> TIm Hockin writes:
: Thanks (pardon my ignorance - I am 4 days old with MIPS Linux :)

The MIPS ABI requires this.

Warner