RFC: ghc's dynamic linker

[Andre Pang]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 03:56:36 +1000, Andre Pang wrote:

> In Plugin.hs:
> 
>     dependentSymbols = ["tail"]
> 
> In Program.hs:
> 
>     loadModule "plugin"
>     -- Load the symbols which A, B, C require
>     loadFunction "dependentSymbols"
>     resolveFunctions
>     mapM_ (loadFunction) dependentSymbols
>     -- Load A, B, C themselves
>     mapM_ (loadFunction) ["A", "B", "C"]
> 
> Hopefully I'm not describing non-issues here ...

Sorry, ignore that above code sample; it's complete hogwash --
resolveSymbols tries to resolve all the functions in _all_
currently loaded modules, not just the functions that you load
with loadFunction.  That makes that code rather incorrect.
I blame the sushi (mmm, sushi).


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