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From: pokey@well.UUCP (System Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Question Re: Configuration Management
Message-ID: <5270@well.UUCP>
Date: 21 Feb 88 01:27:29 GMT
References: <213@ritcv.UUCP>
Organization: Paratheo-Anametamystikhood Of Eris Esoteric, Ada Lovelace Cabal
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In the referenced message, mjl@ritcv.UUCP (Michael Lutz) wrote:
}And, for the person who complained about the brain damaged Unix linker and
}librarian: most linkers I've encountered have the same restriction.

Then I guess you haven't encountered that many linkers.  The VAX/VMS linker
does this right.  The RSX-11 linker does this right.  The TOPS-20 linker
does this right.  Even the god damned PDP-8 linker running FORTRAN-II did
this right.

}                 The Unix linker/librarian may not set the world on fire
}with it's snazzy features, but it most certainly is state of the practice.

It most certainly is not.  It was already obsolete when it was written,
and it hasn't gotten any better in the intervening decade.
---
Jef

              Jef Poskanzer   jef@lbl-rtsg.arpa   ...well!pokey
              ...on the other hand, perhaps we're all on drugs.