Is there a way to have gcc generate %pc relative addresses of constants? Even when the string appears in the text segment, arm-elf-gcc will generate a constant pointer to the data, load the address...

I am putting together a makefile for a project i am working on. I have an executable and a shared library in the project. Both use some of the same source files which get compiled separately into o...

I know the '-fPIC' option has something to do with resolving addresses and independence between individual modules, but I'm not sure what it really means. Can you explain?