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Re: libc-19980524: unnecessary startup file dependencies on Hurd
- To: Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com>
- Subject: Re: libc-19980524: unnecessary startup file dependencies on Hurd
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
- Date: 27 May 1998 11:54:10 +0200
- Cc: Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>, Mark Kettenis <kettenis@phys.uva.nl>, gord@m-tech.ab.ca, drepper@gnu.org, libc-alpha@cygnus.com, bug-hurd@gnu.org
- References: <199805270835.EAA16840@baalperazim.frob.com>
Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com> writes:
|>
|> > The ldd script directly executes a library that includes .interp, and it
|> > works better than without.
|>
|> These particular libraries cannot be (meaningfully) executable because
|> their entry point functions would need to use libc code.
ldd does not depend on any valid entry point. It's the dynamic linker
that does all the work.
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