Dynamic Loading

[Eric Schnoebelen]

In article <9769 at discus.technion.ac.il> 
	devil%techunix.bitnet at lilac.berkeley.edu (Gil Tene) writes:
- In article <HALLETT.90Sep6142725 at enterprise.positron.gemed.ge.com> 
-		hallettJ at gemed.ge.com writes:
- >
- >	[Wants to link in objects on the fly]
- 
- Look up the "-A" option in the ld(1) man page.  [...]
- 
- Beware : some unix systems DO NOT have this feature. I am sure it
- works in BSD and SunOS, but I have checked DG/UX on an Aviion
- (as an example), and it has no -A option to ld.

        And some systems use the -A flag for something completely
different.  An example is the ConvexOS loader, which uses -A for a
compiler only type of switch.  ConvexOS is nominally BSD, but the object
format is now a COFF like thing, as opposed the original BSD a.out
format.

        From my other experiences, System V (at least releases 2 and 3+)
don't support ld -A at all.

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