Kevin D. Kissell [mailto:kevink@mips.com] writes: > > Instead, we can build shared library images located at fixed locations > > in memory, with the location configured at library creation time. > > Stub libraries are generated that hold the absolute addresses of > > functions and data within the library image; programs (and other > > libraries) link with the stubs. > > In fact, this is exactly how shared libraries worked under > UNIX System V. It is inelegant, but economical. Yeah. I bet there are precedents back in the mainframe world too. But my first encounter with it was Linux a.out libraries, so it's a sign that I'm truly a Linux Weenie that I think of it that way :-) Jay
