IEEE 1003.2

[Eduardo Krell]

In article <14946 at mimsy.UUCP> chris at mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:

>For that matter, why do we need object archives in the first place?
>They are just a hack to save space (and perhaps, but not necessarily,
>time).  How about /lib/libc/*.o?

inodes were a scarce resource back then ...

We had an implementation of archives as plain directories (with the proper
changes to ar, ld, etc), and it worked just fine.
    
Eduardo Krell                   AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

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