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Re: solib: URL patch
- From: Jeff Sturm <jsturm at one-point dot com>
- To: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>, GCJ mailing list <java at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 14:10:34 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: solib: URL patch
On 13 Aug 2003, Tom Tromey wrote:
> Too bad there's no way to hook into ld.so's symbol lookup and replace
> it with our own...
Yes indeed. That is the crux of the problem I think, that gcj has relied
on ELF (ld.so) linking semantics since day one, which are inadequate to
completely implement loading of classes in native code.
Extending ld.so isn't out of the question for GNU-ish systems, but there
are far too many important proprietary targets (Windows) to make it
worthwhile.
Jeff