From:	sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
Message-Id:	<10108021522.AA17139@clio.rice.edu>
Subject:	Re: gettext port
To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Thu, 2 Aug 2001 10:22:26 -0500 (CDT)
Cc:	eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii),
	tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be (Tim Van Holder)
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> -: > That aside, could we consider getting some sort of extended dynamic
> -: > loading as part of DJGPP (some implementation of dlopen() perhaps
> -: > - DXE just isn't good enough for general use)?
> -: 
> -: I'd suggest to explore DXE, I don't see any reason it won't be enough for 
> -: this job.
> 
> Why not adopt one of the advanced dxe implementations
> already in v2tk/, e.g., dxe2_011.zip:

I grabed iconv and took a quick look.  I can do it with DXE but it's a
little more code than I would like.  I'm looking at the other alternatives.

(In particular, the libiconv stuff references malloc,free,fopen,abort
and errno - which have to back reference to the main image).

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