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Date:      Wed, 27 Aug 1997 17:45:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <perlsta@sunyit.edu>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: shared libraries?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970827174356.1189B-100000@misery.sdf.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970827201206.27457A-100000@server.local.sunyit.edu>

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On Wed, 27 Aug 1997, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> 
> This is a strange question/idea, 
> 
> Why is the standard C library like the code in string.h, stdio.h ect. in
> shared libraries?  if need be, the programer could change his code and
> make a new library.

  .h files are header files, and don't contain "code", just declarations.

> If most of the libraries were converted to a shared lib format wouldn't
> that reduce memory and disk space requirements tremendously?
> not only that, but complile times and exec times would soar, woudn't they?

  Most of the libraries are in shared format.  All the standard C libs are
in libc.so.*

> you'll have to forgive me if this sounds niave, but i think it's a good
> idea.
> 
> ._________________________________________ __ _
> |Alfred Perlstein - Programming & SysAdmin for hire...
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> 
> 
> 

Tom
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