any "smart linking" efforts?

Cristi Vlasceanu cristiv@amazon.com
Fri Nov 2 08:05:00 GMT 2001


Hi Nick,
Do you know what would it take (or what are the obstacles) to add GC for
dynamically linked executables? I could give it a try if I knew where to
start...
Thanks,
-- Cristi

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nickc@north-pole.nickc.cambridge.redhat.com
> [mailto:nickc@north-pole.nickc.cambridge.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Nick
> Clifton
> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 2:08 AM
> To: cristiv@amazon.com
> Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: Re: any "smart linking" efforts?
>
>
> Hi Cristi,
>
>   I think that in general the answer to your question is yes and no.
> Yes people are working on extending and improving the linker, adding
> new features and so on.  No, nobody is currently working on adding
> garbage collection for dynamically linked executables.  (At least not
> to my knowledge).
>
> Cheers
>         Nick
>



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