Re: Smart linking under UNIX

In article 91-08-095, sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:


|> The reason it generally doesn't exist under *nix is because it's generally
|> not worth the bother. It's *possible* to do it, but, on most systems, you
|> don't gain much.


Why do you think they invented shared libraries ? Because the duplication of
large objects files im memory and on discs is not very clever. So, I guess
having significantly smaller objects is not that undesirable.


Cheers, Henrik


MPCI at LLNL
IBM Research
U. of Munich


PS: See you at HotChips !
[All this ld bashing is getting tedious, so I am declaring this particular
line of discussion closed, unless someone wants to talk about the design of
a linker that he really likes. Personally, I never understood why block
structured linkers that let you export symbols to a group of modules without
exporting them to the whole world never caught on. It would make stuff like
multiple yacc parsers in a single program much easier. -John]
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