From:	Ilya Ryzhenkov <orangy AT inetlab DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	DLM library
Date:	Wed, 09 Sep 1998 23:58:31 +0600
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Greetings!

DLM library project has been reborn and it's official info-page
is at http://www.iis.nsk.su/orangy/dlm/

There is not much there for now, but I post this URL for anyone
interested for him to be in focus.

Briefly :

     DLM  stands  for  "Dynamic  Link  Module".  DLM  engine creates 
 environment,  which allow you to link different modules together at 
 run-time.  The  way  it  works  is  similar  to  the  static linker 
 functionality,  but  is  performed  during  program execution. Many 
 popular  systems,  that  allow dynamic loading and using of modules 
 (or  libraries)  use  the  "ask-me-for-a-pointer"  scheme.  In such 
 environments  you  must first load module, than ask for pointer and 
 then  reference  data  and/or code via pointer. Also you can't have 
 unreferenced symbols left in your code in this systems (for example 
 Windows DLL and so on). 
     Unlike  all  of  this  DLM environment allows you to write your 
 source code as if there would be static linkage (and you really can 
 use  the  same  source  code  without  ANY changes for DLM-oriented 
 version and static linked version by creating some #defines). 
     There is no special syntax for calling functions or referencing 
 data  from  other  DLMs.  For  example,  let  func()  be defined in 
 some.dlm. You can use it like : 

   if ( ! LoadDLM( "some.dlm" ) ) 
     printf( "Can't load DLM some.dlm\n" ); 
    else 
     func(); 

 for more information visit http://www.iis.nsk.su/orangy/dlm/
============================
Ilya P. Ryzhenkov aka Orangy
iNetLab
e-mail : orangy AT inetlab DOT com
   ICQ : 17942172

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