Subject: Re: 'prebind' implementation (was Re: HEADS UP: migration to fully dynamic linked "base" system)
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@mogua.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 08/28/2002 21:07:40
On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 07:27:56AM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> Just for the record: the technique outlined here is more or less exactly what
> M$ does on Win32 systems (another set of all-dynamic OSes, btw). Many 
> application programmer don't do it, but all M$ delivered system binaries
> are prebound just the way Bang describes.

Right. :-) How prebinding works on Win32 (they call it just 'binding')
is described in Matt Pietrek's MSDN Magazine article:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/nettop.asp?page=/msdnmag/issues/02/03/PE2/PE2.asp&ad=ads.ddj.com/msdnmag/premium.htm

Jun-Young

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Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@mogua.com>