DLL vs Shared Library

[Phillip Susi]

Phillip Susi wrote:
> Nevermind, I was confusing position-independent with relocatable. 
> Technically you are correct; windows went with relocatable because it 
> gives better execution speed.
> 

Wait... now that I've thought about it some more I think I was right the 
first time.  You can build shared libs with pic, and on some platforms 
without proper mmu support that is the only way to support shared libs, 
but I believe that on intel pc platforms shared libs are generally NOT 
built this way; they are just relocatable and ld.so has to fix them up 
when loaded.  You can use the prelink utility to perform the fixups in 
advance so they don't have to be done at load time, provided that there 
isn't a memory space collision.