Does one still need to use -fPIC when compiling with GCC?

Question

On gcc target machines, when one wanted to compile a shared library, one would need to specify -fpic or -fPIC to get things to work correcly. This is because by default absolute

Answer 1

gcc targets a lot of platforms and architectures, and not all of them supports natively PIC like the x86 architecture does. In some cases, creating PIC means additional overhead, which may be undesired, and wether you want or need this is depending on your project and the platform you are targeting,.