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- Submitted-by: cmr@cvedc.prime.com (Chesley Reyburn)
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- karish@mindcraft.com (Chuck Karish) writes:
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- >As Don Lewine pointed out, POSIX.1 does not contain any
- >concept of compiling or linking. That's handled, for now,
- >in an optional section of POSIX.2. The right place for
- >dynamic linking in the POSIX scheme would be in POSIX.1, but
- >it would require a change in that standard's scope as
- >well as consideration of the constraints this would
- >impose on other standards.
-
- I am really confused by a scope that allows things such as
- fork() and longjmp() and not dynamic linking. I actually
- don't care how POSIX makes the source code specified in
- local_func() available to me. It can use mutated cockroaches
- instead of compilers for all I care. :-> I just want functional
- access to source code specified during execution.
-
- I realize that the books are written and the standards published.
- But standards are revised from time to time. Especially if they
- are used a lot. I expect POSIX to get used a LOT. What I would
- like is an agreement in principle that the next time POSIX.1 gets
- revisited, dynamic linking gets included.
-
- Chesley Reyburn cmr@cvedc.prime.com
- ECAE Software, Prime Computer, Inc. Phone: 503/645-2410
- 14952 NW Greenbrier Parkway Beaverton, OR 97006-5733, USA
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- Volume-Number: Volume 27, Number 6
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