Re: [9fans] Gawk in 9front-ports

[Jens Staal <staal1978@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday 07 July 2015 16:45:59 Charles Forsyth wrote:
> The loaders support creating a module, with the -u and -x options, with
> import and export tables,
> which are type-checked, to be dynamically loaded. If the program you're
> working with won't compile and load
> statically with the -T option (external type checking), it's probably not
> worth pursuing. The type checking can spot bugs that other
> systems miss, as it did with Python. (A #define was present for one include
> of an #ifdef'd structure but not for another,
> so functions had different ideas about the layout.) There's an auxiliary
> library libdynld that's needed to load a module,
> that doesn't seem to be part of the distribution, but I probably have got
> the bits.

This sounds very interesting. If it is availiable, it would be interesting to
spin in to a independent lib that could be re-used for various software that
expect/depend on dlopen.