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Subject: linux's static shared library and sun-style shared libraries
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Date: Thu, 02 Nov 1995 10:01:02 -0800
From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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Is the difference between the two is that one uses an extra level of 
indirection
so that functions can move around in the library? Where as in the static
model the program most access the function at a given offset at the
static shared library


Tnks,
	Amancio