Re: Global data in shareable library...

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

From: Dr S N Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

drh> Now if you change things so one ASN1_ITEM member can be modified at
drh> runtime I suspect the whole thing will end up in the data segment. That
drh> by itself isn't a problem because of the copy on write stuff under Unix
drh> (and no doubt other OSes) which still means the data can be shared.
drh> However when the structure is initialized at runtime on the first use
drh> (as it would need to be) it will be modified and this will result in
drh> multiple copies of the same data.

I think I need to reread som mail.  I find it hard to believe that it
would be impossible to make things in such a way that ASN1_ITEMs
remain constant...

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