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From:	"Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
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Subject:	Re: RFC - Dynamic loading
Date:	Thu, 20 Dec 2001 21:35:48 +0100
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> What do you guys mean by these existing packages being too `heavy'?
> Too much code to add to libc?  Is the standard dlopen interface
> just overkill for djgpp?

There's that, and then there's the point that the dynamic-loading code
should be as self-contained as possible (so most of libc can become
a shared library).  Since DLX (and my derivation) are C++-based,
there's no way it can satisfy that last condition.

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