From: firewind <firewind AT metroid DOT dyn DOT ml DOT org>
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Subject: Re: Locking in C++.
Date: 6 Oct 1997 23:04:48 GMT
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Peter Palotas <blizzar AT hem1 DOT passagen DOT se> wrote:
> I wonder if there is some way to lock a memberfunction of a class in DJGPP.
> I know an ordinary function can (strangely enough), as it seems, be locked
> by creating a dummy function right after the function you want to lock. But
> does this work for a member-function of a class too? (I somehow doubt that).

> Isn't there any other way to find out the size of a function? Or can you
> put a member function of a class in a specific code-segment and then lock
> the entire segment? (Maybe one can lock an entire class in one step?)... 

I haven't tried it, but I'm rather unsure that the tradition dummy function
trick would work.

Your only alternative, I believe, is to patch gcc to support sections as an
__attribute__, put everything you need to lock in a single section, and lock
the whole thing.

Patches (including a pre-recompiled :) binary) and instructions for using and
locking sections can be found at Alaric B. William's web site:

http://www.abwillms.demon.co.uk/prog/index.htm

HTH!

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