From: "Paul Derbyshire" <pderbysh AT usa DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Threading
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Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 14:23:02 GMT
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So a 'fake' SIGSEGV is used?

1. Is there a way to diddle a hardware interrupt(timer) to return to an altered
address
    using assembly under DPMI?
2. Is it possible to make a disk file containing relocatable compiled C++ code
that can
    be dynamically loaded into memory and linked-to? How would one accomplish
    this? The most obvious way would be to package individual
dynamically-loading
    classes that will have a common interface (e.g. plugin architecture), write
an
    "abstract base class" with function pointers that look and act like virtual
function
    members implementing the interface, and load specific plugin classes at
runtime
    into some allocated memory, locate the entry points (their offsets in the
file/data
    presumably have been extracted and recorded in an additional data structure
in the
    files) and put their relocated addresses in the function pointers of an
instance of
    the interface class, and at other offsets in the plugin replace placeholder
    0x00000000's with the addresses of methods it calls from the standard
library (if
    library use is made available to the modules at all, which it should be
ideally).

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