At 03:26 PM 10/13/00 +0000, David L. Nicol wrote:
>Dan Sugalski wrote:
>
> > If there's no hit, I'd love to have all perl functions callable from
> > outside. I'm not sure that'll be the case, though I'm all for it...
>
>With the 334 infrastructure, the -o option to generate a linkable object
>from a perl program/library (RFC 121) will be most do-able: "specially
>attributed" functions get put in the .h file and linker symbol table,
>and normal functions still require conversion to/from PerlData before
>calling.
Yep, it'd be doable. A pain, but doable. (One of the compiler books I have
lists "building the object file" as one of the big jobs for a compiler
writer not because it's tough, but because nobody ever documents the object
format right...)
We'd still have to have some sort of initialization code in there somehow,
but I expect most platforms have a place in the dynamic link phase where
you can wedge in library initialization calls.
Dan
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