From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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
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X-SW-Source: 1998/msg00173.html

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.

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