Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1a 7/7/83; site rlgvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!rlgvax!guy From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Shared system routines Message-ID: <940@rlgvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Aug-83 05:11:07 EDT Article-I.D.: rlgvax.940 Posted: Mon Aug 1 05:11:07 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Aug-83 22:38:06 EDT References: <886@rlgvax.UUCP>, <4907@cornell.UUCP> Organization: CCI Office Systems Group, Reston, VA Lines: 8 Just out of curiosity, how did the EXEC 8 system handle global references from the shared library to data, rather than routines, outside of it? Did it use the Multics technique of using an indirect pointer to refer to any external, whether code or data; did it just forbid such references; or did it find a third way out? Guy Harris {seismo,mcnc,we13,brl-bmd,allegra}!rlgvax!guy