Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 15:00:07 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Subject: Re: Elf linker question. Message-ID: <XFMail.981124150007.jdp@polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <86emqsy9zu.fsf@detlev.UUCP>
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> I thought that the current system, did symbol checking at link time,
> but still had lazy binding at run time.
>
> Am I mistaken here?
No, you're exactly right. But lazy binding applies only to function calls.
There are also data references that have to be relocated. Those can't be done
lazily.
John
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