static shared library vs static linking

Ian Lance Taylor ian@zembu.com
Wed Feb 21 23:19:00 GMT 2001


koundinya@teil.soft.net writes:

> With Static Shared libraries, symbols are still bound to 
> addresses at link time,
> but library code is not bound to the executable until run time. 

Thanks.  That is what is used on SVR3.  I usually just call them COFF
shared libraries.

They are a real pain to work with, which is they the technology was
abandoned in favor of ELF.

Ian



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