libraries

[The Beach Bum]

In article <445 at thirdi.UUCP> peter at thirdi.UUCP (Peter Rowell) writes:
>What if a "library" was simply an editable file that contained the
>names (possibly including *'s and such) of interesting .o files.
>Additionally, there could be an optional SYMDEF file that had the
>already-munched global symbol info in it.

For systems with symlinks this reduces to a directory full of symbolic
links.  The `file' containing the names is the directory itself.  Even
without symbolic links, the only restriction is that the files remain
in the same partition or disk.

I'm holding out for a namei cache Chris' ld code ;-)
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