solib: URL patch

Wed Aug 13 18:10:00 GMT 2003

On 13 Aug 2003, Tom Tromey wrote:
> Too bad there's no way to hook into ld.so's symbol lookup and replace
> it with our own...

Yes indeed. That is the crux of the problem I think, that gcj has relied
on ELF (ld.so) linking semantics since day one, which are inadequate to
completely implement loading of classes in native code.
Extending ld.so isn't out of the question for GNU-ish systems, but there
are far too many important proprietary targets (Windows) to make it
worthwhile.
Jeff