Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 09:21:56 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ls_length in struct linker_set Message-ID: <9507271321.AA09949@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <9507262041.AA23200@cs.weber.edu> References: <9507261936.AA08840@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <9507262041.AA23200@cs.weber.edu>
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<<On Wed, 26 Jul 95 14:41:36 MDT, terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) said: > I didn't mean we should change the linker (far be it for us to have > any say on how that's coded). I think our current use is abuse of a > facility that was put there to support FORTRAN common blocks, actually. Sorry, you're wrong. It's a facility that was put there to support C++ global constructors and destructors, actually, and then extended because it turned out to be a generally useful thing. We Will Not Go Back To The Old Way(tm). -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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