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-$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/dfunc.sgml,v 1.31 2005/04/09 03:52:43 momjian Exp $
+$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/dfunc.sgml,v 1.32 2005/09/14 21:14:26 neilc Exp $
-->
<sect2 id="dfunc">
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</para>
<para>
- <indexterm><primary>PIC</></> Creating shared libraries is generally
- analogous to linking executables: first the source files are
- compiled into object files, then the object files are linked
- together. The object files need to be created as
- <firstterm>position-independent code</firstterm>
+ Creating shared libraries is generally analogous to linking
+ executables: first the source files are compiled into object files,
+ then the object files are linked together. The object files need to
+ be created as <firstterm>position-independent code</firstterm>
(<acronym>PIC</acronym>),<indexterm><primary>PIC</></> which
conceptually means that they can be placed at an arbitrary location
in memory when they are loaded by the executable. (Object files