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From: "Roman V. Shaposhnik" <rvs@sun.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Cc: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] a question on style
Date: Fri,  1 Aug 2008 02:26:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1217582786.20626.42.camel@goose.sun.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13426df10807311502o2bf0033ne3622512757427d9@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 15:02 -0700, ron minnich wrote:
> OK, am I just out of date or is there a real reason for linker
> sets?This question just came up in linuxbios v3 and I am wondering if
> I am a stubborn old coot (likely) or if there really is merit to my
> dislike of linker sets.

I tend to dislike any kind of linker magic in user-space quite
profoundly. The most I can tolerate is PLT, I guess. But even
that is something I don't appreciate all that much when I need
to debug low level code. So I agree with you there 100%.

Now, on the other hand, I guess kernel is different though.
Isn't it supposed to be one huge piece of magic to begin with? ;-)

Thanks,
Roman.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-08-01  9:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-31 22:02 ron minnich
2008-07-31 22:04 ` erik quanstrom
2008-07-31 22:15   ` ron minnich
2008-08-01  9:26 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik [this message]
2008-08-01 10:06   ` erik quanstrom
2008-08-01 11:09     ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2008-07-31 22:17 erik quanstrom
     [not found] <af2f03a68f1be3c97a367093315a9f56@quanstro.net>
2008-07-31 22:19 ` ron minnich
2008-08-01 15:37   ` Steve Simon
2008-08-01 16:28     ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-08-01 17:24       ` Charles Forsyth
2008-08-01 22:29         ` erik quanstrom
2008-08-03 11:27       ` bblochl
2008-08-05 22:38     ` erik quanstrom
2008-08-01 11:41 erik quanstrom

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