Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 13:19:16 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Gerhard Gruber <sparhawk AT eunet DOT at>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Making Libraries
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On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Gerhard Gruber wrote:

> Shared librarys could be supported the way older compiler used overlays. I
> remeber that Turbo C2.0 used overlays and this was AFAIK quite transparent to
> the code.

IMHO, overlays aren't worth the hassle.  They have all the disadvantages 
of shared libraries (having a program depend on several files) without 
the advantages (saving disk space).