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From: mld@netcom.com (Matthew Deter)
Subject: Re: How do I create shared libraries for FreeBSD?
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Date: Fri, 29 Apr 1994 07:36:41 GMT
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Jordan Hubbard (jkh@nx.ilo.dec.com) wrote:
: Garrett has already explained that -Bshareable is correct, but just to
: correct a misconception here - a shared library is NOT smaller, it's
: the applications you link WITH it that are supposed to get smaller!
: :-)
In fact, in (simple) tests I've done with shared-libs, sometimes they
are LARGER than their archive format cousins... As you say, however,
the programs they link with are MUCH smaller.
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