Date:	Mon, 14 Nov 94 14:25:57 -0500
From:	dj AT stealth DOT ctron DOT com (DJ Delorie)
To:	UCKO AT VAX1 DOT ROCKHURST DOT EDU
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Re: Shared libraries

> Good point...but isn't the place x86 segmentation might _finally_ come in
> handy?  Just give each library its own segment and tell the linker which one
> each owns.  Even under DPMI, it should at least be possible to get a segment
> to point to the appropriate location, shouldn't it?  (If I sound incoherent,
> it's because I don't know a whole lot about protected-mode programming. 
> Sorry.)

In this case, the problem is that gcc doesn't know how to deal with
"far" things, so you can't put code in more than one segment.

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