Author: Zoltán Herczeg Date: To: Giuseppe D'Angelo CC: pcre-dev Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] pcre_compile.c: error_texts
> Each user gets its own writable data section; read-only data sections > are instead shared between the users.
I don''t think anything would work without a private .data and .bss section. As far as I remember the point of static libraries is that they use position independent code, so they can be mapped anywhere, not just from a fixed starting offset. Otherwise they are the same as anything else.
> But again, this requires some sort of preprocessing in order to deal
> with the XSTRING(...), which are fixed at configure time. And if we
> accept to do the preprocessing, then I think we can statically build
> the array of the offsets.
Well, we can generate such files at compile time, similar to unicode data, default char tables, etc. Lots of tables are already generated. One more probably doesn't matter. The compiler can simply include this table. We could also include a default copy (another .dist file) in the source.
