-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 8/26/10 10:23 , David Leimbach wrote: > Go, for example, has no shared libraries, and the runtime fits in every > binary. It does not even depend on libc. Go binaries call the system call > interface of the kernel, and the net result is that I get to test my go > code, deploy it, and not worry about the state of deployed go environments > quite so much as I do in the presence of shared libraries.
Um. That's a really good way to have all your programs stop working when the Linux kernel interface changes yet again ("ABIs? We don't need no steenking ABIs!" --- see in /usr/src/linux/Documentation). Solaris is similar; the only approved interface is via libc and you must link to it shared if you want your program to work across versions/releases. (Which is the reason shared library support is important. I personally like my programs to keep working.) - -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allb...@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allb...@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkx2rmMACgkQIn7hlCsL25XmjACgmWne8rR0EYeeHIBZvp2gywLp KDMAoKLGedOj5Dy2GXBo+NLcbCGemhS8 =XBmS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe