Summary of current change suggestions
Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
qrczak at knm.org.pl
Wed Feb 21 02:14:31 EST 2001
Wed, 21 Feb 2001 16:01:48 +1100, Manuel M. T. Chakravarty <chak at cse.unsw.edu.au> pisze:
> So, how about the following.
I must admit that I like my own proposal better :-)
> So, as Marcin pointed out, the only use for a library object
> spec for ccall is so that interpreters know which handle to
> pass to dlsym(). I am not too fond of the idea that the
> interpreter has to try a dlsym() on all library objects that
> it did dlopen(). Or is this maybe not too bad?
As I see in ghc/rts/Linker.c, in the ELF case dlopen (NULL, RTLD_LAZY)
and dlopen (filename, RTLD_NOW | RTLD_GLOBAL) can be used to let the
linker find the library for each symbol. I don't know about Windows DLLs.
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