On Monday, September 27, 1999 7:40 PM, Michael G Hughes [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
wrote:
: >Currently, the biggest
: >problem with shared libraries on 8086 and bcc is that the compiler can't
: >produce position-independent code (ala -fPIC) so that even the code segment
: >requires data relocations, and thus can't be shared. So each process has
: >it's
: >own copy.
:
: What about just using DS/CS as they were designed (as I believe is done
: for task switching), can bcc handle that? Or create something like an
: indirect jump and glue code in the library.
The indirect jump and glue code is exactly what is needed out of bcc.
currently, it doesn't generate any of that kind of code.
