On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 12:53:04PM -0400, Bart Trojanowski wrote: > re 'at run time': Does that mean that at compile time there are > multiple snippets of functionally-equivalent code compiled to support > varied run-time arch's?
The support is actually in the runtime linker. libssl is compiled multiple times with CPU-optimized versions installed into subdirectories of /usr/lib indicating the CPU type. While doing runtime linking ld.so looks first in the CPU-specific subdirectories. This only works if the ABIs of the libraries are interchangable. -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever."
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