From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 24 15:00:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA19394 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 15:00:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA19384 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 15:00:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA02968; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 15:00:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id PAA01350; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 15:00:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <86emqsy9zu.fsf@detlev.UUCP> Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 15:00:07 -0800 (PST) Organization: Polstra & Co., Inc. From: John Polstra To: Joel Ray Holveck Subject: Re: Elf linker question. Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, Julian Elischer Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 --- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." -- H. L. Mencken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message