[zahlman]

Yes, that's clear. I'm just not aware of people actually doing that, or having done it back in the era when Java was more dominant.

[charcircuit]

The bigger issue is that glibc doesn't support loading libraries from zip archives where bionic's linker ddoes. So on platforms where glibc is used you wouldn't see it being done.

[zahlman]

Again, I was talking about Java (not C). Good to know, though.