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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Fundamental defect of the concept of shared libraries
Keywords: ISC i386 shared libraries
Message-ID: <7991@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 23 May 91 18:15:19 GMT
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>Guess what:  we can now do PC-relative references.

Yes, but the "jal" in question isn't necessarily position-independent. 
Of course, you can do a BGEZAL with register 0, instead of a JAL, which
*is* position-independent.

<entrycode> presumably preserves the incoming value of $31, right?