From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 24 14:58:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA18944 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 14:58:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from detlev.UUCP (31-sweet.camalott.com [208.239.153.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA18931 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 14:58:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.9.1/8.9.1) id QAA50918; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 16:57:46 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from joelh) To: John Polstra Cc: Julian Elischer , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Elf linker question. References: From: Joel Ray Holveck Date: 24 Nov 1998 16:57:40 -0600 In-Reply-To: John Polstra's message of "Tue, 24 Nov 1998 14:37:46 -0800 (PST)" Message-ID: <86emqsy9zu.fsf@detlev.UUCP> Lines: 20 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> 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