From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27917 invoked from network); 26 Aug 1999 12:26:56 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 26 Aug 1999 12:26:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 11819 invoked by alias); 26 Aug 1999 12:26:47 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 7502 Received: (qmail 11812 invoked from network); 26 Aug 1999 12:26:47 -0000 From: jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de Message-Id: <199908261226.OAA69872@numa1.igpm.rwth-aachen.de> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 14:26:29 +0200 Reply-To: jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de Subject: Re: whatis DYNAMIC_NAME_CLASH_OK To: zefram@fysh.org cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii On 26 Aug, Zefram wrote: > jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: >>1.) What's the heck with DYNAMIC_NAME_CLASH_OK ? > > That's from a configure test, which checks whether you can load multiple > modules that define symbols with the same name. The reason for it is > that, on systems that permit it, all setup functions are named "setup_" > (and the other module functions similarly), so that a module works > independently of its filename. > > -zefram Thanks, now I have to find out why dlsym returns an invalid address when called with 'setup_' only (or should it be 'setup' ?) Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik Institute of Technology, RWTH Aachen D 52056 Aachen, Germany