[Info-vax] linkshrlib.com - link opensource libraries into shareable images

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On 08/03/12 15:35, Stephen Hoffman wrote:

> On OpenVMS Alpha, this task can be implemented without particular
> integration in the Linker and the compilers, using the compiler analysis
> files and an undocumented feature of the OpenVMS Alpha Linker (which I
> don't think made it to Itanium), and the aforementioned database. You'd
> need to scan these analysis files from the compilers and (maybe) from
> the constituent shareable images, and could then synthesize the transfer
> vectors for the linker pass.
The "undocumented feature" was intentionally removed, the reason was 
already mentioned: it will not always work. The main target for this 
feature was to handle mangled names from C++ (and maybe Ada). The C++ 
compiler was enhanced to assist with /export.