From: alaric AT abwillms DOT demon DOT co DOT uk (Alaric B. Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: wanted : Loadable Module support
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 18:18:26 GMT
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"Alexander V. Lukyanov" <lav AT video DOT yars DOT free DOT net> wrote:

>> You'd need to put some level of debug info in the executables, so as
>> to find them symbols, or change the stub to be a "runtime linker",

>It's better to load runtime linker as a simpler module at runtime.

My meaning was that if we use the original module as a loadable
module, it can export things like printf() implicitly.

Otherwise we end up writing an entire stub C library which calls back
to a huge server library in the original code! 

Regards,


ABW
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