Subject: Re: egcs / koffice
To: None <tls@rek.tjls.com>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 10/25/1998 14:19:33
On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
: > Well, now we do. Shared libraries bring in their own very large can of
: > worms.
: Speaking of which, is anyone working on eliminating the crawling horror
: which is the present arm32 "PIC" shared library mechanism? That'll be
: a flag day, too, won't it? Requiring a change in magic number or emulation
: number.
Charles was, but I don't know how much he got done.
It would require a bump of the ld.so emulation number in _DYNAMIC, though
that does not necessarily mean that we couldn't be backwards compatible (old
shlibs do, in fact, have real PIC code; it's the offsets that are
nonstandard).
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