On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Mm-hmm. ld -Bshareable as opposed to ar rc. > > This demonstrates a superficial understanding of the process, nothing > more.
I know exactly how an ar archive is made of all the non-PIC .o files and a ranlib works. I know what happens when ld puts together position- independent-code (which is position-independent because it uses the GOT) and generates a shared library. I know how GCC only includes the .o files from an ar library archive which it needs and nothing more. I know that the dl* functions in libc itself are just stubs. All I don't know is why we can't load ld-elf.so.1 for static executables as well as "dynamic" ones. > > > I just think we're not seeing eye to eye. > > I'd be more inclined to say that John simply understands this where > you don't. Go study up, then come back and engage the poor guy in > debate if you genuinely feel you have a solution to offer to this > already already much-discussed (see the mail archives) issue. I was asking because I wanted to be referred to where I could find where these were discussed. I'm not going to wade through a search that I don't even have a hint on what to look for. > > - Jordan > Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ gr...@freebsd.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message