Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 12:11:13 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@morton.cdrom.com> Cc: current@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Argh! Another side-effect of Nate's changes? Message-ID: <9504071611.AA28809@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <9504071540.AA28754@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> References: <199504070858.BAA03743@morton.cdrom.com> <199504071456.IAA10404@trout.sri.MT.net> <9504071540.AA28754@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
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<<On Fri, 7 Apr 1995 11:40:51 -0400, I wrote: > I think the problem is simply that static programs don't have the > _DYNAMIC information necessary to do dynamic linking. Arguably, you > don't want them to. <slaps himself on the side of the head> Of course! You can't use dlopen() etc. in static programs because they are implemented in ld.so! (This is the same restriction as in SunOS.) I would be opposed to making crt0 map in ld.so for static programs just in case they decide to use dlopen() and friends. -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
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