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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: <1992Aug13.124928.13672@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 12:49:28 GMT
- References: <1992Aug12.164218.13155@crd.ge.com> <1992Aug12.182534.12667@unislc.uucp> <1992Aug12.202438.19963@serval.net.wsu.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug12.202438.19963@serval.net.wsu.edu>, hlu@phys1.physics.wsu.edu (Hongjiu Lu) writes:
- | I am not sure about that. With jump table, we just added one jump for
- | each function. If the libs are compiled with -O -fomit-frame-pointer,
- | I don't think you will notice a thing.
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- Of course the debugger doesn't work if you compile the libraries with
- no frame pointer, and if you get a dump from a procedure called with bad
- parameters you may not be able to find out what happened. I wouldn't do
- that personally, but then I wouldn't upgrade my C compiler and library
- unless there was a good reason, either.
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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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