NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #16/NN_1992_16.iso/spool/comp/unix/aix/8218

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From: [e-mail] (Paul Dokas x4629)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: A better dynamic loader???
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Date: 27 Jul 92 16:27:51 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Patrick Gainer) writes:
|> >In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Paul Dokas) writes:
|> >>I need to be able to execute dynamically loaded modules from within another
|> >>program, but I can't seem to find the needed functionality anywhere.  What I
|> >>have right now is a program that uses load() to pull in a module and then it
|> >>calls the function pointed to by the return value of load().  This works
|>...
|> An easy way to do this is to use load(), as Mike says, then to call nlist()
|> which returns offsets of functions within a single object module, then
|> calculate the function addresses from the offsets returned by nlist() and
|> the entry point returned by load().
|>
|> I happen to have some code which does exactly what you want - I'll send it
|> to you if you'd like.

This is exactly what I'm going to do.  Thanks to all who replied!!!
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