Machine instruction code that executes properly regardless of where in memory it resides
Also known as PIC
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In computing, position-independent code (PIC) or position-independent executable (PIE) is a body of machine code that executes properly regardless of its memory address. PIC is commonly used for shared libraries, so that the same library code can be loaded at a location in each program's address space where it does not overlap with other memory in use by, for example, other shared libraries. PIC was also used on older computer systems that lacked a Memory Management Unit (MMU), so that the operating system could keep applications away from each other even within the single address space of an MMU-less system.