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From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Cc: libc-hacker@cygnus.com, ian@cygnus.com (Ian Lance Taylor),
	gas2@cygnus.com, libc-hacker@gnu.org (GNU C Library)
Subject: Re: An ELF linker patch
Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 09:21:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <r2iunmggbb.fsf@happy.cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vyz3eeqqv1b.fsf@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>

Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

> |> # gcc -O -g -o sharedstatic main.c libfoo.so -Wl,-rpath,. -Wl,-Bstatic
> 
> Are you sure that we really want to support that?

This and the question what might break for well-behaved programs by
adding these patches is what still keeps me from applying the patches.

IMO we shouldn't present the mxing of dynamic and static binaries as a
usable way.  Everybody should use dynamic binaries, only in very
special cases it might be desirable to rely on this feature.

-- Uli
---------------.      drepper at gnu.org  ,-.   1325 Chesapeake Terrace
Ulrich Drepper  \    ,-------------------'   \  Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA
Cygnus Solutions `--' drepper at cygnus.com   `------------------------

  reply	other threads:[~1998-05-04  9:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-04-30 11:54 H.J. Lu
1998-04-30 12:07 ` Ian Lance Taylor
1998-05-04  1:51 ` Andreas Schwab
1998-05-04  9:21   ` Ulrich Drepper [this message]
1998-05-04 15:53     ` Thomas Bushnell, n/BSG
1998-05-04 16:37       ` Ulrich Drepper

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