Dynamic Class Loading Idea

[Craig Black]

"Daniel Keep" <daniel.keep.lists at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:fgi777$na4$2 at digitalmars.com...
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> 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.
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>> Does this relocation use function pointers?
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> 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.
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> What you described is basically what a linker does, hence what DDL does.
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> -- Daniel

That's pretty cool then.  Since we have DDL, can we effectively say that we 
have dynamic class loading?  Or are features missing from DDL that make it 
not a full dynamic class loader?

-Craig