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Re: -Bdirect linking patch

From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
To: michael dot meeks at novell dot com
Cc: binutils <binutils at sources dot redhat dot com>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 07:30:41 -0700
Subject: Re: -Bdirect linking patch
References: <1130507872.6501.18.camel@linux.site>

michael meeks wrote:
> 	So - I have an evily hackish prototype for glibc & binutils that gives
> me a really nice speedup with relocation processing. It's inspired by
> the Solaris -Bdirect feature of the same name, and is implemented in the
> same way - by adding a section containing a 16bit word per .dynsym entry
> with an index into the libraries DT_NEEDED table, built at library link
> time.

Forget it, we have prelinking, which is much more efficient.

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