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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Shared Libraries Considered Harmful
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.164218.13155@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 16:42:18 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug11.233209.25850@serval.net.wsu.edu>, hlu@phys1.physics.wsu.edu (Hongjiu Lu) writes:
- | We are working on that. In gcc 2.2.2d, the junmp table will be used for
- | libc.a, libm.a, libtermcap.a, libcurses.a and libdbm.a.
- |
- | Hope 0.97 root image will use the jump table.
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- I know Linus got some new info about libraries from my question in
- comp.arch, it may be possible to get the portability of a jump table
- without the performance drawbacks. Of course everyone else may be
- running a 486-50 and not notice the performance hit.
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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