Ideas for runtime loading of shared libraries.

Daniel Murphy yebblies at nospamgmail.com
Thu Mar 7 18:18:31 PST 2013


"Walter Bright" <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
news:khban1$1lm2$1 at digitalmars.com...
> On 1/2/2012 11:20 AM, Martin Nowak wrote:
>>   - Libraries might not be unloaded as long as GC collected class 
>> instances
>> still exist because
>>     finalization fails otherwise.
>
> D doesn't guarantee that finalizers will run on GC allocated objects. 
> Therefore, when unloading a dll:
>
> 1. run a gc collection
> 2. for all objects remaining on the heap
>        if they have a finalizer and that finalizer points into the dll 
> code
>             mark them as not having a finalizer

What if their vtbl points into the dll code?

What about delegates or function pointers that point there? 




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