Fundamental defect of the concept of shared libraries

Sean Eric Fagan sef at kithrup.COM
Wed May 22 16:34:25 AEST 1991


In article <215 at titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> mohta at necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta) writes:
>In article <7916 at auspex.auspex.com> guy at auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>>Are there any architectures of interest in this discussion that can't
>>support PC-relative references?
>R3000.

	_foo:
		<entrycode>
		jal	foo1$
	foo1$:
		addu	$at, $31, 0

Guess what:  we can now do PC-relative references.  And this isn't even 
the most efficient way to do it.

Score one for our side.

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