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Date:      Fri, 7 Aug 1998 22:30:48 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, faber@ISI.EDU, Nicolas.Souchu@prism.uvsq.fr, mike@smith.net.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: C and static initialization with unions
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808072229510.14076-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808072341430.341-100000@picnic.mat.net>

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On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Chuck Robey wrote:
[..]
> Well, it's not the compiler, it's the linker here that's important, and
> don't hold your breath on that, GNU hasn't supported our a.out for a
> _very_ long time ... I don't think, without FreeBSD modifications, that
> they ever did.

This, I wonder about.  C shared libs seem to work well.  Ah well, either
way, I'd like to see some better egcs support, ELF or not.

> Sooner, we'll probably go to ELF, making it a moot point.

- alex

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