Date: 24 Nov 1998 16:57:40 -0600 From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Elf linker question. Message-ID: <86emqsy9zu.fsf@detlev.UUCP> In-Reply-To: John Polstra's message of "Tue, 24 Nov 1998 14:37:46 -0800 (PST)" References: <XFMail.981124143746.jdp@polstra.com>
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>> The trouble with that is that ALL libraries end up being loaded into >> memeory whenever one program requires any of them. they also all get >> traversed on program startup which keeps them all in memory.. right? > Right. The whole files don't get "traversed", but their symbol > tables, relocation tables, and data segments do get accessed. It's > significant. I thought that the current system, did symbol checking at link time, but still had lazy binding at run time. Am I mistaken here? Happy hacking, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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