shared libraries, when to use them

[Scott Schwartz]

mouse at thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse) writes:
   (In passing: anyone know why Sun doesn't document the format of the
   ld-generated data structures? ...)

Sun?  Aren't they the ones with "industry standards" and "open
systems"?  Followups to comp.unix.marketing, where it will be noted
that psu has more cattle than Sun does. :-)