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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: Dynamic Loading
Message-ID: <4055@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 12 Sep 90 18:40:24 GMT
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>        From my other experiences, System V (at least releases 2 and 3+)
>don't support ld -A at all.

I doubt S5R4 does, either, but then it has "dlopen()"/"dlsym()"/etc.
which gives you a built-in dynamic linking mechanism (which "ld -A" does
NOT - you have to write the "load the file" code yourself, or pick up
one of the already-written versions floating around).