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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Dynamic Shared Objects
- Keywords: SYSV DSO
- Message-ID: <vbjttp4@zola.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 06:23:54 GMT
- References: SYSV DSO <2216@celia.UUCP>
- Sender: news@zola.esd.sgi.com (Net News)
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- In <2216@celia.UUCP> gray@celia.UUCP (Steve Gray) writes:
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- | I am very interested in the progress in terms of the implementation of SYSV
- | Dynamic Shared Objects (DSOs). In particular I am interested in the use of
- | DSOs to reduce the development cycle for large systems that use cfront 3.0
- | (SGI rev. 3.1. compiler set) templates.
- |
- | Is the SYSV DSO functionality available under 4.0.5.? I would be happy with
- | a primitive and not necesarily reliable version just to see how it is
- | supposed to work. My understanding is that DSOs will be fully supported in
- | IRIX 5.0. Is this correct?
-
- No, it isn't available at all under 4.0.X; yes, it is part of 5.0, and
- as far as I know, is fully supported (I guess it may depend on whose
- definition of DSOs you use, of course).
-
- I'm not sure that I see how DSO's are going to reduce your development
- cycle (for C++ or anything else).
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- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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