From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 24 15:54:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA24710 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 15:54:50 -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 PAA24702 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 15:54:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.9.1/8.9.1) id RAA86047; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 17:54:16 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from joelh) To: John Polstra Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, Julian Elischer Subject: Re: Elf linker question. References: From: Joel Ray Holveck Date: 24 Nov 1998 17:54:11 -0600 In-Reply-To: John Polstra's message of "Tue, 24 Nov 1998 15:00:07 -0800 (PST)" Message-ID: <86d86cy7do.fsf@detlev.UUCP> Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.3 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. How are things like: sighander_t mysig = libsig; handled? 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