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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>
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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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