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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Subject: Re: Fundamental defect of the concept of shared libraries
Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
Date: Wed, 22 May 1991 06:34:25 GMT
Message-ID: <1991May22.063425.26144@kithrup.COM>
Keywords: ISC i386 shared libraries
References: <197@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> <7916@auspex.auspex.com> <215@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp>

In article <215@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta) writes:
>In article <7916@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>>Are there any architectures of interest in this discussion that can't
>>support PC-relative references?
>R3000.

	_foo:
		<entrycode>
		jal	foo1$
	foo1$:
		addu	$at, $31, 0

Guess what:  we can now do PC-relative references.  And this isn't even 
the most efficient way to do it.

Score one for our side.

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