Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uw-beaver!mit-eddie!wuarchive!m.cs.uiuc.edu!roundup.crhc.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!mp.cs.niu.edu!bennett From: bennett@mp.cs.niu.edu (Scott Bennett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Library function redefinition Message-ID: <1991Mar5.015733.28209@mp.cs.niu.edu> Date: 5 Mar 91 01:57:33 GMT References: <1991Mar4.234345.3913@mp.cs.niu.edu> Organization: Northern Illinois University Lines: 38 In article gumby@Cygnus.COM (David Vinayak Wallace) writes: > > Date: 4 Mar 91 23:43:45 GMT > From: bennett@mp.cs.niu.edu (Scott Bennett) > > It would be nice if someone (e.g. FSF) would develop > a replacement for (or at least an alternative to) ld(1) that would get > rid of the need for so many of the contortions I see developers going > through to get around ld(1)'s inadequacies. > >We have; it's in beta and looks like it will be part of the gcc/g++ >2.0 release. It lets you do most of what you asked already; I sent Wow! Ask and ye shall receive, eh? That's *great* news! Thanks a bunch, guys! >your message to the poor guy who wrote it so he can fill in the >gaps... > >But don't forget, NeXT doesn't use the gnu linker. I know, but maybe we could find a way... Meanwhile, it would be great on all the machines I use at work (except the Amdahl and (grrr...) the Data General machine.) Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG Systems Programming Northern Illinois University DeKalb, Illinois 60115 ********************************************************************** * Internet: bennett@cs.niu.edu * * BITNET: A01SJB1@NIU * *--------------------------------------------------------------------* * "I, however, place economy among the first and most important * * of republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the * * dangers to be feared." --Thomas Jefferson * **********************************************************************