Re: 21.4.14 Linking Question
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
So whatever the accuracy of Hrvoje's comments about
"compiling to C
would really be portable", the portable dumper does a good
imitation.
Note that my comment was only half serious. I'm quite aware that the
current portable dumper is, in reality, pretty portable.
Another way that pdump kicks ass is that it's easy (read: possible) to
use tools that manipulate executables, such as Purify and Quantify.
Many external tools were unable to handle executables created by
unexec; OTOH, everything handles executables created by `ld', which is
how portable dumping has it.