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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: Dynamic Loading
Message-ID: <4042@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 9 Sep 90 23:14:25 GMT
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>Beware : some unix systems DO NOT have this feature. I am sure it
>works in BSD and SunOS, but I have checked DG/UX on an Aviion
>(as an example), and it has no -A option to ld.
>
>BTW : This ld -A option is called "incremental" loading. "Dynamic"
>loading is a term used concerning run-time and shared library loads.
>(At least that's the BSD and SunOS terminology).

Well, SunOS terminology, anyway; current BSD releases don't have that
flavor of dynamic loading.  If the original poster has a system that
*does* have that flavor of dynamic loading (SunOS 4.1 - 4.0 has most of
it, but doesn't have the run-time part; System V Release 4; AIX 3.x;
Apollo Domain/OS; possibly others), he probably wants to use that
instead of dinking around with "ld -A" and one of the large collection
of routines to load "ld -A"ed files....