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Date:      24 Nov 1998 17:54:11 -0600
From:      Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org>
To:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
Subject:   Re: Elf linker question.
Message-ID:  <86d86cy7do.fsf@detlev.UUCP>
In-Reply-To: John Polstra's message of "Tue, 24 Nov 1998 15:00:07 -0800 (PST)"
References:  <XFMail.981124150007.jdp@polstra.com>

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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.

How are things like:
  sighander_t mysig = libsig;
handled?

Happy hacking,
joelh

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