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From: david@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (David E. Smyth)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Flaw in Xt init sequence (but with simple fix)
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Date: 28 Feb 91 17:25:14 GMT
References: <1991Feb28.005057.24723@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: david@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (David E. Smyth)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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tbray@watsol.waterloo.edu (Tim Bray) writes:
>
>GENERAL CLAIM: this kind of dependence of on the semantics of the unix linker
>is unclean, unportable, and downright icky.
>
>SAMPLE PROBLEM: IBM's AIX on the RS/6000 supports shared libraries.

I would say that AIX is not UNIX.  Saying that you can't count on left
to right evaluation of references by the linker is sort of like saying
you can't count on the sequence of statements in C.

Its not unportable and icky.  It is the way its done.  If AIX's shared
library scheme works like this, you should submit a bug report to IBM,
not to people who write UNIX software.

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