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From: martin@iris.ucdavis.edu (Bruce K. Martin Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: ld -A (incremental loading)
Message-ID: <351@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
Date: Mon, 12-Oct-87 16:41:38 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 12 16:41:38 1987
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Keywords: 4.2BSD 4.3BSD incremental dynamic loading linking
Summary: COFF anyone?

>In article <465@tasis.utas.oz> greg@tasis.utas.oz (Greg Watson) writes:
>A question for the 4.2BSD gurus:
>
>Has anyone played around with (and got working) the -A flag with 'ld'?
>This flag (according to the manual) provides incremental loading and
>allows an object to be loaded into an already executing program.

On a very similiar note...  I'm interested in writing a dynamic loader
for COFF files (something very similiar to what ld -A does).  Before
I go off and re-invent the wheel, has anyone done something like this?


thanks!

			...bruce

Bruce K. Martin, UC. Davis, Div. of Computer Science
martin@iris.ucdavis.edu  --or--  {ucbvax | lll-crg}!ucdavis!iris!martin