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From: stephen@mincom.OZ (Stephen Kirby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: executable size
Summary: Restrictions prevent use of c and f77 shared libraries
Message-ID: <299@mincom.OZ>
Date: 1 Mar 90 00:17:05 GMT
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Organization: Mincom, Brisbane, Australia
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Subject:	Shared library implentation problems.

Mincom would like to be able to reduce the size of their
executable files by utilizing shared libraries.

There are a couple of restrictions which prevent us
from making full use of shared libraries.  Would you 
please find out if and when these problems will be
addressed in IRIX.

1. 	A routine in a shared library cannot call a routine
	from another shared library.  Even though it is
	documented on page 13-33 in the IRIS-4D Programmers
	Guide.  ( the #objects noload   directive.)

2.	There are no shared libraries available for the
	fortran compiler.  The fortran runtime library
	is not shared.

3.	There is no facility to make our own shared 
	libraries from our fortran routines.

If the above restrictions were fixed we would be able
to produce smaller executables and improve our 
development environment.

MINCOM Pty Ltd   		Ph: (07) 3948000

1st Floor
109 Logan Road,			138 Juliette St,
Woollongabba.			Greenslopes 4120
BRISBANE			BRISBANE
		 		Fax (07) 3942844

Stephen Kirby.