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From: mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta)
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Subject: Re: Shared Lib Question (ISC)
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Date: 15 May 91 11:26:04 GMT
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In article <7516@segue.segue.com> jim@segue.segue.com (Jim Balter) writes:

>It is far better to either keep a register pointing to a global data area,
>as mentioned in my previous note, or to support shared libraries with
>private data, with all the attendant complexity, than to cripple a library
>specification on the basis of a misapplication of CS principles.

What if, as is often the case, you have several shared libraries linked
to one executable?

							Masataka Ohta