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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [klibc] [parisc-linux] klibc parisc64
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:55:56 -0700
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H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> (k)libc.so isn't a shared library in the ELF sense.  It's an executable.
> 

... specifically, as far as ELF (and the kernel) is concerned, it's the 
ELF interpreter; it's linked at a fixed address and the application 
invokes it with usual static jumps.

Very similar to old Linux a.out stuff.  Messy and primitive, but very fast.

	-hpa
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