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Re: dynl.c
Dirk Herrmann <dirk@ida.ing.tu-bs.de> writes:
> A first start made me look at dynl.c. I enclose a proposed patch,
> but would be grateful if someone with better knowledge of the
> workings of dynamic loading could take a look at it.
It looks basically good to me. I'm unsure about the wording of the
new error messages, tho. I think they could be changed to
"Already unlinked: ~S"
> However, I do have a question about the implementation: Why is the
> user required to explicitly unlink a library? Couldn't this be done
> automatically by the gc?
Ideally, the GC would do this, but I'm not sure whether the GC has
enough knowledge about the use of a dynamically linked object. FOr
example, you can't just unlink a shared object when the smob for it is
collected.