Re: RFC: ghc's dynamic linker

Thanks, I didn't know about libelf. That might be a good replacement for our custom linker (at least on ELF platforms) at some point.

Note that it's _not_ a linker - just a good clean set of struct definitions, some code to read and write them to a file and a few utility functions. It seems to use mmap and friends to read the file so it's quite efficient. (But you have to turn this off at configure time if you're _both_ reading and writing the file because mmap doesn't work very well over NFS.) -- A