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Article #356Re: VMS shareable images, what's wrong with them?
From: George J. Carrette
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 08:57
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 08:57
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In article <Bvo7FC.M01@ithaca.com>, garry@ithaca.com (Garry Wiegand) writes: > Only later did code > modularity, and library shareable images, become interesting > concepts, and by then it was too late to change the defaults. Pure fantasy and fiction. The importance of shareable images has existed in VMS since before the first line of VMS was written. > Everyone with portable code nowadays has to has to use a linker > options file to override all the compiled psect declarations. And every smart person creates this options files automatically. So even if the default were NOSHR, should the default be NOSHR,LCL or not? Don't forget, that in Multics, well, sigh, I bet you have never heard of Multics in any useful detail... -gjc
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mitech!gjc From: gjc@mitech.com (George J. Carrette) Newsgroups: vmsnet.internals,comp.os.vms Subject: Re: VMS shareable images, what's wrong with them? Message-ID: <3025@mitech.com> Date: 6 Oct 92 08:57:07 GMT References: <Bvo7FC.M01@ithaca.com> Organization: Mitech Corporation, Concord MA Lines: 21