Fundamental defect of the concept of shared libraries

Guy Harris guy at auspex.auspex.com
Fri May 24 04:15:19 AEST 1991


>Guess what:  we can now do PC-relative references.

Yes, but the "jal" in question isn't necessarily position-independent. 
Of course, you can do a BGEZAL with register 0, instead of a JAL, which
*is* position-independent.

<entrycode> presumably preserves the incoming value of $31, right?



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