Date: Mon, 14 Nov 94 11:19:51 -0500
From: dj AT stealth DOT ctron DOT com (DJ Delorie)
To: UCKO AT VAX1 DOT ROCKHURST DOT EDU
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Shared libraries

> Ouch.  Hmmm.  How about some sort of (don't tell the FSF :-) ) #pragma?  How
> do other systems handle this sort of thing?

The linker just knows to put that data somwhere that strip won't
touch.

> Why not build something like that into DJGPP 2.0?  Have the stub launch a
> loader which exits after loading the libraries?

There's still the problem of where to put the library.  Most systems
that support shared libraries can load the library at a predictable
address, so that no relocation is needed.  In DPMI 0.9, there is no
way of doing this.