From: mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot)
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Subject: Re: Why does gcc make such big binaries?
Date: 27 May 1997 13:17:56 GMT
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Lonnie McCullough (lonniem AT cs DOT utexas DOT edu) wrote:

: Does anyone know where to find information on dynamic linking and it's
: implementation. 

You could start by looking at the code for DXEs in DJGPP; this might even
provide a base for you to extend. AFAIK they were only hacked together to
the stage where the floating point emulation could be loaded at run-time,
and there are severe restrictions on what you can/cannot do in the .dxe
files (I think C library routines are not allowed, for instance). But it
might give you some ideas for how to make a start.

: I sorta know it in the context of Windows but am not
: quite sure how the resolving of addresses of variables and functions
: works across dll/exe boundries.  (i.e. how does the exe know where the
: code for the functions is even after it's been loaded by LoadLibrary?)
: I just need some information on dynamic linking.  A URL?  Anything.

You could look around Microsoft's homepage; they have examples and
descriptions of their file formats which again might give you some ideas
for where to start.

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George Foot <mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
Merton College, Oxford

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