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From: ben@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Benjamin Ellsworth)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Flaw in Xt init sequence (but with simple fix)
Message-ID: <100920305@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>
Date: 5 Mar 91 19:59:51 GMT
References: <1991Feb28.005057.24723@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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> ... However, the shared-lib builder on AIX handily pre-resolves all
> the unresolved pointers. ...

Then it's not a library at all!  It is one monolithic package.  It is
not a group of optionally disassociable modules.

Entirely too many operating system vendors are doing this "handy"
pre-resolution in their supposed shared libraries.  They should all be
given a good spanking by the ISV community.


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