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From: richard@castle.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: Shared libraries and 386bsd.
Message-ID: <33426@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 24 Mar 93 16:01:43 GMT
References: <1993Mar15.064119.19323@hippo.ru.ac.za> <MCKIM.93Mar23082603@dinah.lerc.nasa.gov> <1onp3o$l3v@umd5.umd.edu>
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In article <1onp3o$l3v@umd5.umd.edu> mark@elea.umd.edu (Mark Sienkiewicz) writes:
>The 386 has segment registers.

Noooo... please, not that...

Anything that results in non-uniform pointers, even if they're only
code pointers, is too high a price to pay.

-- Richard