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Re: Statically linking against a shared library

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
To: Thorsten Glaser <tg at 66h dot 42h dot de>
Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 13:36:51 +0100
Subject: Re: Statically linking against a shared library
References: <Pine.BSO.4.61L.0503122203030.11523@odem.66h.42h.de><20050313030131.GB13506@bubble.modra.org><Pine.BSO.4.61L.0503130933240.28033@odem.66h.42h.de>

Thorsten Glaser <tg@66h.42h.de> writes:

> Alan Modra dixit:
>
>>At least not without emulating ld.so's behaviour in ld, which isn't
>>a sane idea.
>
> Uh, why? After all, I think, it's just some relocation work and
> setting up a bunch of tables.

No, it isn't.  The execution view of an ELF object is very much different
from the link view.  The information on how to set up this bunch of tables
is irretrievably gone.

Andreas.

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References:
- Statically linking against a shared library
  - From: Thorsten Glaser
- Re: Statically linking against a shared library
  - From: Alan Modra
- Re: Statically linking against a shared library
  - From: Thorsten Glaser

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