static shared library vs static linking

[koundinya@teil.soft.net]

Regarding static shared libraries, this is what I have read in a 
book devoted to Linkers and Loaders by levine:

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. 
( Of course, with Dynamic shared libraries, both are delayed 
until runtime).


A static linked shared library can't change very much without 
breaking the
programs that it is bound to. Since the addresses of routines 
and data in the
library are bound into the program, any changes in the addresses 
to which the
program is bound will cause havoc.


Koundinya


-> "YU Tang" <squalls_tang@263.net> writes:
-> 
-> >      I am really confused by these two termilogy.It's
-> > easy to understand how static linking works;but
-> > what about static shared library?
-> 
-> I don't know what a static shared library is either.
-> 
-> Are you asking about a dynamic shared library?
-> 
-> Ian