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to: Pascal Schmidt
from: Roy J. Tellason
date: 2004-01-13 04:07:06
subject: [C] An interesting question

Pascal Schmidt wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 PS> Hi Roy! :-)

 KK>> As far as registering the modules goes, this can not really be 
 KK>> done without your intervention at compile time, TTBOMK.

 RJT> I was thinking of a more dynamic model,  something that would be 
 RJT> handled at runtime,  actually.

 PS> On Linux, you could compile the modules as .so files and
 PS> dynamically load them using dlopen() and then dlsym() to find
 PS> symbol addresses in the module (so with a common entrypoint name,
 PS> you could call the function provided by the module). This even
 PS> works for loading multiple modules which declare the same symbol. 

I have a lot to learn about programming on that platform,  any suggestions
as to what might be some good places to start?

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