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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: can we ever compile perl?
Message-ID: <1990Dec19.183317.24045@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 19 Dec 90 18:33:17 GMT
References: <93725765@bfmny0.BFM.COM> <1990Dec15.161911.27401@NCoast.ORG> <12432668@bfmny0.BFM.COM>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
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As quoted from <12432668@bfmny0.BFM.COM> by tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff):
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| In article <1990Dec15.161911.27401@NCoast.ORG> allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) writes:
| >aren't particularly easy to save/restore in a portable way.  Of course, it
|                                                ^^^^^^^^
+---------------

"Portable" may not be the word.  I have used systems where this will fail
because a different execution of a program has a few things at different
addresses, so just restoring the data and bss from a file leaves pointers
dangling.  (Consider that stdio is already initialized by the time the data
and bss are loaded.)

++Brandon
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