warning: -fPIC ignored for target (all code is position independent)

Question

I'm creating a shared (.DLL) library and I keep getting this message from the compiler (gcc):

json.c:1:0: warning: -fPIC ignored for target (all code is position independent)

What does it mean that all code is position independent?

How a position dependent code looks like?

Answer 1

What does it mean that all code is position independent?

It means that on your platform, all code is compiled as if -fPIC is on command line, whether you specify it or not (and the flag is therefore redundant).

You can safely ignore that warning.