Re: [MiNT] WCOWORK implementation : conclusions.

[evan@coolrunningconcepts.com]

Quoting Howard Chu <hyc@highlandsun.com>:

> Another interesting approach would be to keep enough symbol table info
> in statically linked apps to allow them to be relinked. That is, run a
> linker command
> 	relink foo.app -lnewlib
> which replaces all the symbols in foo.app that appear in newlib with the

Ya know, I was just thinking about that yesterday - relinking static 
libs using
symbol table information.  I wasn't aware that IBM was already doing it, but
its an interesting direction.

> version from newlib. So you can keep your snappy static library load
> times, but still take advantage of bugfixed libraries over the course of

Definately seems like a best of both worlds approach, except that you'd need
some sort of relink-everything script if you replace a known-buggy 
library with
a fixed one.