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Date:      Thu, 27 Jul 1995 09:21:56 -0400
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ls_length in struct linker_set
Message-ID:  <9507271321.AA09949@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <9507262041.AA23200@cs.weber.edu>
References:  <9507261936.AA08840@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <9507262041.AA23200@cs.weber.edu>

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<<On Wed, 26 Jul 95 14:41:36 MDT, terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) said:

> I didn't mean we should change the linker (far be it for us to have
> any say on how that's coded).  I think our current use is abuse of a
> facility that was put there to support FORTRAN common blocks, actually.

Sorry, you're wrong.  It's a facility that was put there to support
C++ global constructors and destructors, actually, and then extended
because it turned out to be a generally useful thing.  We Will Not Go
Back To The Old Way(tm).

-GAWollman

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