https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=91744
--- Comment #5 from Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to Eric Gallager from comment #4) > > That's confusing. Is there anywhere in the documentation or somewhere that > this could be clarified? Maybe a "Commonly Confused Compiler Options" page > in the wiki or something? The documentation is clear here and even mentions -pie option for the link side: -fpie -fPIE These options are similar to -fpic and -fPIC, but the generated position-independent code can be only linked into executables. Usually these options are used to compile code that will be linked using the -pie GCC option. -fpie and -fPIE both define the macros __pie__ and __PIE__. The macros have the value 1 for -fpie and 2 for -fPIE. ---- CUT --- I think someone did not read the documentation after all.
