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From: bfox@AUREL.CALTECH.EDU (Brian Fox)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: GCC_SUNOS4_FLAG = -Bstatic ???
Message-ID: <8908112116.AA06700@aurel.caltech.edu>
Date: 11 Aug 89 21:16:07 GMT
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   Date: 11 Aug 89 19:02:38 GMT
   From: mcvax!kth!sunic!Urd!newsuser@uunet.uu.net  (Per Foreby)
   Organization: EFD, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden
   Sender: bug-bash-request@prep.ai.mit.edu

   Why? (see subject) [GCC_SUNOS4_FLAG = -Bstatic]

   Can I link dynamically to save memory? Any disadvantages?

You can dynamically link to save swap space (isn't that what you meant?)
but GDB can't debug Sun dynamically linked things.

Brian Fox