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Re: Is this supposed to work, or am I loopy?
- To: aoliva at redhat dot com (Alexandre Oliva)
- Subject: Re: Is this supposed to work, or am I loopy?
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at racerx dot synopsys dot com>
- Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 14:41:36 -0800 (PST)
- Cc: pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com (Phil Edwards), nickc at redhat dot com (Nick Clifton), gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
> -R is not portable at all. If one thinks it works under ``everything
> else'', that must be a very narrow definition of ``everything else''.
In most respects, Linux closely copied the Solaris (or SVR4) shared library
implementation. Almost all of the other features are exactly the same.
Those of us who've used Sun machines for years don't see the reason for
gratuitous differences.