Re: ar "zero" flag

["Valeriy E. Ushakov" <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 12:22:11 +0200, Havard Eidnes wrote:

> For instance, Sun's Java, at least version 1.5, links some libraries
> statically into their own shared library,

I cannot parse that, and I'm not sure that statement ("links some
libraries statically into shared library") even makes sense.

I spent 6 years at Sun hacking on AWT and yes, we used to have a
private copy of Motif folded into ...awt.so (which, btw, caused some
very bad side effects if customers wanted to use their own native
widgets code - think "two copies of Xt's global data" here), but it's
not correct to call that type of linkage "static".  Think of linking
our *_pic.a code into someone's shared library.

SY, Uwe
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