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Date:      Mon, 25 May 1998 20:10:28 -0700
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
Cc:        tlambert@primenet.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Fix for undefined "__error" and discussion of shared object versioning 
Message-ID:  <199805260310.UAA18048@austin.polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 25 May 1998 15:16:08 %2B1000." <199805250516.PAA19101@cimlogic.com.au> 

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> > That's why everybody who really scrutinizes ld decides it would be
> > a lot easier to throw it out and switch to ELF.
>
> Oh, so _that_ is the reason for switching to ELF. Chuckle. It solves
> the old ld problems. Just a matter of perspective, I guess. 8-)

Well, seriously, for me at least that's a large part of the
motivation.  Unfortunately, the binutils linker isn't, uh, what you'd
call "transparent," either.  But at least it has plenty of users and
plenty of maintainers.
--
   John Polstra                                       jdp@polstra.com
   John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                Seattle, Washington USA
   "Self-knowledge is always bad news."                 -- John Barth

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