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- Date: Sat, 3 Apr 93 08:22:12 -0800
- From: ersmith@netcom.com (Eric R. Smith)
- Message-Id: <9304031622.AA09283@netcom4.netcom.com>
- To: mint@atari.archive.umich.edu, sjg@phlim.ph.kcl.ac.uk
- Subject: Re: shared libraries for MiNT
-
- >Just as a thought - Linux has had shared libraries since day 1, so the
- >format must be fairly standard/robust by now. If there are problems with
- >using the Amiga standard format (I didn't realise they had shared libs -
- >one in the eye for me!) then why not use the Linux standard. (I believe
- >there are attempts underway to port Linux to the 68k series anyway.)
-
- I believe that Linux implements shared libraries by assigning a fixed
- virtual address to each library. This requires virtual memory, which
- means that it could be made to work on the 68030, but not on the
- 68000. This is a very significant disadvantage.
-
- Eric
-