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"Do not merge". Placed in PR titles where discussion or analysis is still
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+ ## DSO
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+ Dynamic shared object, an shared library file (.so/.dylib/.dll, the extension of
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+ which depends on the platform) to be used by multiple applications while they
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+ are executing.
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## dup
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From "duplicate". As a noun, refers to another filed issue that describes
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types, generic signatures can be [ canonicalized] ( #canonical-type ) to be
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compared directly.
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+ ## GOT
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+ [ Global offset table] ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Offset_Table ) ,
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+ a section in an executable or a shared library, which enables code to run
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+ independently of the memory address where it is loaded at runtime. Entries
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+ in GOT directly point to absolute addresses of symbols. The format of GOT
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+ is platform-dependent. Loaders update GOT relocations either on
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+ startup or on symbol access.
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## iff
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[ "if and only if"] ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_and_only_if ) . This term comes from mathematics.
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the bridging headers read in by the ` -import-objc-header ` command-line
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flag to swiftc.
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+ ## PLT
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+ Procedure linkage table, which is used to call external functions that don't
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+ have their addresses known at link time. These addresses are then resolved
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+ by a loader at run time.
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## PR
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1 . "Problem Report": An issue reported in [ LLVM's bug tracker] ( https://llvm.org/bugs/ ) .
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