Plugins and D programs

[Martin Nowak]

On 03/14/2014 12:44 AM, Sean Kelly wrote:
>
> It might be purely a matter of historic interest at this point,
> but DDL was basically doing plugins in D ages ago:
>
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/ddl
>
> I /think/ this was the dynamic loading scheme h3r3tic used in his
> game engine back in the day.  I'm sure someone with a better
> memory than me could explain it better.

But this use object with non-PIC and does full relocation while loading.
Thus it also requires writable, executable memory which isn't available 
on many systems due to security issues.