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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

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