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From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Shared libraries and 386bsd.
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1993 11:31:05 GMT
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References: <1993Mar15.064119.19323@hippo.ru.ac.za> <MCKIM.93Mar23082603@dinah.lerc.nasa.gov> <1onp3o$l3v@umd5.umd.edu>
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In article <1onp3o$l3v@umd5.umd.edu> mark@elea.umd.edu (Mark Sienkiewicz) writes:
> If you placed each shared library in it's own segment, you could link the
> library based at 0 and avoid some of the PIC problems.  You pay for it
> by dealing with the segmentation stuff.

How do you handle callbacks from a library (big deal in X, but also important
in qsort() and other base routines.
-- 
Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
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