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Date:      Thu, 27 Jul 1995 17:48:19 -0400
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
Cc:        wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman), esser@zpr.uni-koeln.de, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ls_length in struct linker_set
Message-ID:  <9507272148.AA10797@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <9507271946.AA13760@cs.weber.edu>
References:  <9507271754.AA10540@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <9507271946.AA13760@cs.weber.edu>

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<<On Thu, 27 Jul 95 13:46:03 MDT, terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) said:

>> Using whose linker?  I considered this question for all of five
>> minutes, and concluded that it was not worth any more thought, since
>> anything that we do with these things can be trivially implemented
>> using C++ constructors, and any reasonable build environment will
>> provide some facility for making C++ work.

> IBM's AIX linker on the Motorolla Ultra PPC 604.

> And without C++, a linker that supports C++ mechanisms is relatively
> useless (unless you happen to know the magic incantations for it).

Think `collect2' and then answer again.

-GAWollman

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