misleading statement in bugs.html#known

Per Bothner per@bothner.com
Thu Dec 6 12:33:00 GMT 2001


Geoff Keating wrote:

> printf (&__stdin, ...)
> 
> then this works with dynamic linking by creating space in the
> executable for '__stdin', resolving the address of __stdin at link
> time, and copying at startup time the initial contents of __stdin to
> that space


Ugh.  Ick.  This is unfortunate mechanism, not that I know enough
about dynamic linking to know if there is (or could be) a better
way.  But it seems we're stuck with it.

Thanks for the replies and explanations.
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