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From: matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Matt Crawford)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Does GNU emacs ever use shared libraries?
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Date: 24 May 89 17:40:52 GMT
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After seeing a dozen of these articles, it finally occurred to me that I
already have emacs running with shared libraries under 4.3 BSD on the
Elxsi-6400 here.  Elxsi implements shared libraries by having them
installed in high memory shared among all processes, with a jump table in
a known location.  I didn't need to do anything to the installation
procedure that I didn't have to do before Elxsi offered shared libraries.
The standard GNU emacs loadup and unexec procedure is used.
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Matt Crawford	     		matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu