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Date:	Thu, 20 Dec 2001 18:02:56 +0200
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: RFC - Dynamic loading
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Charles Sandmann wrote:
> 
> > What would this dynamic linking have for debugging the loaded code?
> 
> Symbols would not be available, as is today.

Today DXEs are not used for user code.  If we introduce a less restricted facility, this
will probably no longer be true, so users will need to debug dynamically-loaded code.

> Don't build it into a DXE until you've debugged it?

IMHO, that is not a very good alternative.  E.g., imagine a DLL written by someone else.

> The only potentially debuggable alternative I saw was to build on the
> XCOFF support for windows PE type DLLs

Why do we need special support for that?  Can't we use one of the GDB tricks, whereby it
sets a breakpoint in dlopen and waits until the library is actually loaded?

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