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From: bean@putter.wpd.sgi.com (Bean Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: G0 libraries
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Date: 27 Jun 90 01:04:35 GMT
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In article <3513@umbc3.UMBC.EDU>, bernie@umbc5.umbc.edu (Bernard J.
Duffy) writes:
>
> ...
>
>      Does this mean programs performing dynamic loading will bomb if they
> weren't compiled -G 0  or  would they just yield the wrong numbers/ fault
> results?  If they bomb, I'll just leave them off the system until some
> user complains about their program not working due to a dynamic loading
> error (hopefully an informative sys-err message on failure).  I currently
> don't have any flavors of lisp running, but might have KCL in the future
> (added to our machines by our KCL support person).
> 
>
Programs performing dynamic loading will not necessarily "bomb" if they
weren't compiled -G 0.  The main thing is that the dynamically loaded
modules were compiled -G 0; if not, the dynamically loaded module will
end up overlaying data space in the GP region.


			Bean