From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jul 27 14:49:42 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id OAA08225 for current-outgoing; Thu, 27 Jul 1995 14:49:42 -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 OAA08189 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 1995 14:48:56 -0700 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.3.6) id AA10797; Thu, 27 Jul 1995 17:48:19 -0400 Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 17:48:19 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9507272148.AA10797@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 In-Reply-To: <9507271946.AA13760@cs.weber.edu> References: <9507271754.AA10540@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <9507271946.AA13760@cs.weber.edu> Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk <> 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 -- 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