On Nov 16, 2007, Basile STARYNKEVITCH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For example, the "simple" plugin mechanism many people have implicitly > in mind is just: something give you the ability to call a dlsymed > function inside a dlopened plugin as a pass in a defined (& fixed) > position in passes.c. I tend to believe it is not that difficult to > implement (it seems to me that the issue is to get it accepted in the > trunk). However, this does not guaranty at all that all the internal > representation (e.g. the tree.h and other header files) is stable.
Exactly. And I guess some of this could even be accomplished with LD_PRELOAD. But how useful would that be, really? How far would this go into addressing the real needs that are behind the requests for plugin support? -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED], gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org}
