RE: Capabilities

[Greg Haerr]

On Friday, June 04, 1999 5:28 AM, Alan Cox [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
: > A reloc table in the binary (like DOS EXE files) could work for code at
: > least (as long as the binaries are immutable while a process is using
: > them, and the programs are careful about self-modifying code).
: 
: No it doesnt
: 
: extern int foo1();
: 
: int foo2()
: {
:       x=foo1;
:       x();
: }
: 
: You need 32bit pointers and until you are in 286 mode you also need to do
: basically impossible fixups
: 

Good point, again.  Per my last email, the compiler doesn't have to support far
proc ptrs though.
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