[Debian-uk] Symbian get UK patent on linking to a DLL - analysis wanted

Paul Sladen debian-uk at paul.sladen.org
Sat, 24 May 2008 10:26:12 +0100 (BST)


On Sun, 18 May 2008, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> However, since this patent apparently refers specifically to linking by
> ordinal, [..] unknown in ELF dynamic linking, I can't think of anything

Ordinal linking to ELF DLLs is used in Linux demos, particularly 1kB and 4kB:

  http://in4k.untergrund.net/index.php?title=Crinkler#By_ordinal

	-Paul
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