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From: tody@noao.edu (Doug Tody X217)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: A/UX 2.0 press release
Message-ID: <1990Mar22.060011.5972@noao.edu>
Date: 22 Mar 90 06:00:11 GMT
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Organization: National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, AZ, USA
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Can anyone shed some light on how the new shared library facility in A/UX
2.0 is implemented?  Does this imply a general file mapping facility, with
copy on modify and so on?  Are compilers that can generate position
independent code needed to make use of the shared libraries?  Can the
linker link a process with the base of the text segment located at an
arbitrary user specified address?  If this is a general shared library
facility that is quite a plus for A/UX, as some of the big workstation
vendors do not even have this yet.

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