Re: Handrolled linker?

On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 06:19:00PM +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote:

On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 17:44, David Brown wrote:

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Any estimates on the difficulty of changing Linker.c to be able to use standard dynamic link calls (dlopen, ...) rather than having to be customized for every target platform.

I asked Simon M about this recently:

http://www.mail-archive.com/glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org/msg06189.html

Actually, this isn't the question that I have. This is about ghci's dynamic loading of C objects (or other similar language). There is a handrolled linker in the ghci code. I'm interested in replacing this handrolled linker with dlopen... so that it is easier to port. Dave