From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
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Subject: Re: dxeload proposed patches
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Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 12:27:53 -0600 (CST)
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> I applied this and recompiled libc and a tiny floating point using
> program. The result behaved as expected on my 386 (without
> coprocessor).

That's good news (I would expect no difference).

For everone's information, there has been some other activity in the
dynamic loadable area from other developers.  Daniel Borca has been
working on DXE3 - a modification of DXE2.  We are discussing merging
these development efforts to get into the cvs/libc tree.  This would
provide wrappers to support the dlopen() type unix calls (in some
cases).

My goal is to have a layered approach - DXE at the low level - small,
fast, proprietary - called by other wrappers to add compatible 
interfaces and more sophisticated features.