From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jul 27 06:22:01 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id GAA20945 for current-outgoing; Thu, 27 Jul 1995 06:22:01 -0700 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id GAA20939 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 1995 06:21:59 -0700 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.3.6) id AA09949; Thu, 27 Jul 1995 09:21:56 -0400 Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 09:21:56 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9507271321.AA09949@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 In-Reply-To: <9507262041.AA23200@cs.weber.edu> References: <9507261936.AA08840@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <9507262041.AA23200@cs.weber.edu> Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk < 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 -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant