At 3:37 PM +0100 2/13/03, Dimitri Papadopoulos-Orfanos wrote:
I'll summarize the answers I got so far.
This seems to be a Mac OS X bug.
Really, it's a fatal Mach-O design flaw. One of many fatal design
flaws, both in the Mach-O format itself and in the dyld application
binary interface (ABI).
(Who the heck uses PC-relative addressing on a RISC processor?!)
I wish Apple would realize this and take some steps to address them.
Instead, there appears to be a willful blindness to these flaws that
helps neither developers nor the platform.
-- Chris
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