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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Applets?
From:       Harri Porten <porten () tu-harburg ! de>
Date:       1999-05-15 9:51:33
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Steffen Hansen wrote:
> 
> But that's not all. By examining a lib with objdump/nm i found that
> there are large areas with virtually nothing but zero's in them. I have no
> idea why it is so, but lets hope all the 0's dont get loaded into ram :)

AFAIK the compiler leaves some space in the library's interface to allow
later modifications without losing binary compatibility.

I'll stop speculating now ;)

Harri.

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