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Subject: How to tell if a ELF library/executable was built with -fpic versus
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Perhaps this belongs on the binutils list, but I'd like to know how if an ELF
library/executable was built with -fpic versus -fPIC.  I know each makes PIC
object code, with the difference being the size of the data model:

-msmall-data (-fpic)
-mlarge-data (-fPIC)

but I have some shared libraries I am linking against such that I don't know
which PIC option was used to build it.  Is there an ELF header I can check?

If this is the wrong list to post this, I will redirect to the binutils list.

Thanks,

Tom