Re: [MiNT] WCOWORK implementation : conclusions.

[Mark Duckworth <mduckworth@atari-source.com>]

On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 20:43 -0400, evan@coolrunningconcepts.com wrote:
> 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.

You could just relink every binary in your $PATH.  Seems easy enough to
me.

Mark