From: Nathaniel Gray <n8gray@gmail.com>
To: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Ker Lutyn <ker527mail@yahoo.com>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] PIC
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 20:54:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aee06c9e0601032054l6fb41a82vb8641b0cca363fc3@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1136342332.17213.96.camel@rosella>
On 1/3/06, skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 15:27 -0800, Nathaniel Gray wrote:
>
> > Who wants to write an app without plugins these days?
>
> Who is willing to write applications that are unsound?
>
> Once Ocaml generates -fPIC it can be linked with a C wrapper
> to make a shared library, and your mainline (or another
> wrapped library) can embed a function that loads such
> libraries with dlopen() and retrieves a record of functions,
> then casts it to the expected type ..
> voila, you have native code plugins.
This could solve part of the problem, namely alleviating the need for
recompiling the app for each plugin the user adds. However, given the
OCaml team's indifference towards binary compatibility, trying to keep
everybody on the same version of the compiler would be too restrictive
to be practical.
-n8
--
>>>-- Nathaniel Gray -- Caltech Computer Science ------>
>>>-- Mojave Project -- http://mojave.cs.caltech.edu -->
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-04 4:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-25 2:07 PIC skaller
2005-12-27 10:03 ` [Caml-list] PIC Xavier Leroy
2005-12-27 12:23 ` skaller
2005-12-28 9:14 ` Sven Luther
2005-12-31 21:31 ` David Fox
2006-01-01 10:49 ` Ker Lutyn
2006-01-03 23:27 ` Nathaniel Gray
2006-01-04 2:38 ` skaller
2006-01-04 4:54 ` Nathaniel Gray [this message]
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