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From: jsw@xhead.esd.sgi.com (Jeff Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: G0 libraries
Message-ID: <9572@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 27 Jun 90 05:56:57 GMT
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In article <9555@odin.corp.sgi.com>, bean@putter.wpd.sgi.com (Bean
Anderson) writes:
> 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.

	You could write a dynamic loader that does GP allocation and fixes 
	up all references to GP data...

		--Jeff

Jeff Weinstein - X Protocol Police
Silicon Graphics, Inc., Entry Systems Division, Window Systems
jsw@xhead.esd.sgi.com
Any opinions expressed above are mine, not sgi's.