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From:	nicolas AT dsys DOT ceng DOT cea DOT fr (Eric NICOLAS)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: ELF and dynamic linking
Date:	20 May 1996 06:22:14 GMT
Organization:	Commissariat a l'energie atomique, Grenoble (France)
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References:	<28123 DOT 9605190007 AT bylands DOT dur DOT ac DOT uk>
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In article <28123 DOT 9605190007 AT bylands DOT dur DOT ac DOT uk>, Sengan DOT Short AT durham DOT ac DOT uk writes:

>Since there is much talk of dynamic linking, and some people are already working
>on it, I'd like to make a suggestion: It would be nice if the linking supported
>choices. What I mean by this is that particular implementations of the functions
>to be linked in could be chosen dynamically.

[...]

>Clearly the simplest way of implementing this would be to allow choice of
>library archive for the program next to be executed on the command line.

[...]

>However what I was thinking, would be to allow dynamic relinking during the
>game: the main executable would be responsible for declaring which functions
>it needed before calling any of them.

Bill Currie and I are developing a dynamic loading for djgpp that will
allow all that. Code name: DJDL (DJgpp Dynamic Loading).

-- 
Eric Nicolas <nicolas AT dsys DOT ceng DOT cea DOT fr>

Take a look to the SWORD home page :
	france:	http://bunny.ensea.fr/Pages_Perso/Cedric_Joulain/sword.web/home.html
	us:	http://www.iquest.net/~cworley/sword.web/home.html

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