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Subject: Re: [9fans] SO for plan9?
From: "rob pike" <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 06:13:37 -0400
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	AFAIK there are no shared libraries in plan9?
	Any ideas will they be available?

We haven't felt the need for shared libraries in Plan 9.

	second but related question: are there advanced
	ELF-like features like weak symbol, .init/.fini
	sections etc?

The object file format is pretty straightforward. It doesn't
even have type symbols; those are written to a separate
file in the form of an acid(1) program.  See a.out(6) for
details of the object file format; 2c(1) and acid(1) for
the symbols.

-rob