Dynamic Class Loading Idea

[Craig Black]

"Bruce Adams" <tortoise_74 at yeah.who.co.uk> wrote in message 
news:fgicuv$11j1$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Daniel Keep Wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Craig Black wrote:
>> >> I like DDL's approach, in which it acts as a run-time linker. It uses
>> >> relocation data in OBJ files to find address references and fix them
>> >> (thus "relocating" the code for any memory address) when loading the
>> >> libraries.
>> >
>> > Does this relocation use function pointers?
>>
>> Here's how I understand it.  DDL is a linker.  The only difference
>> between DDL and dmd/gcc is that it works at run time instead of compile
>> time.
>>
>> What you described is basically what a linker does, hence what DDL does.
>>
>> -- Daniel
>
> Its also what an operating does to load dynamic link libraries or shared 
> objects.
>

Right, but the operating system does not do this when loading dll's or so's 
at run-time.