Dynamically loading and unloading (C) object files

[Andrew Farmer]

The published version of that paper in the ACM digital library...

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1017478


On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Edward Z. Yang <ezyang at mit.edu> wrote:

> > So that leads me to wonder: are there limitations that we should be
> > aware of? Have I simply been lucky so far?
>
> If you are loading Haskell code, you will need to be very careful to
> make sure you load all of the dependencies as well.  There are a number
> of plugins packages and a paper:
> http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.9.7627
>
> GHC API changes a lot, so it's easy for these packages to get bitrotted.
>
> The upcoming release of GHC will run constructors (link-time
> initializers), but will not run destructors.
>
> There is only partial support for weak symbols.
> http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3333
>
> Edward
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