> > At the moment, there are two kinds of initialisation done for each > > module: > > Both ELF and DLLs on Windows provide a way of specifying initializers. > > Or, easier yet, since the user is already using the hs_init function, > you could use that. The way you'd do that in ELF is to define a > special section 'hs_initializers'. Every module would contain a > single object in that section: the address of the initializer. (In > gcc you do this by attaching an attribute to the variable. In asm it > is even easier since assemblers directly expose sections to the > programmer.) The linker will do what it does with all sections: > concatenate the pieces from all object files. hs_init would treat the > section as an array of function pointers. I'm sure that the Windows > linker must have a similar mechanism - the main trick is figuring out > what name to give the sections.
That's what I meant by a linker set :-) Cheers, Simon _______________________________________________ FFI mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ffi