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- From: andyr@wizzy.com (Andy Rabagliati)
- Subject: Re: dynamic loading and linking
- Message-ID: <C17spz.4v8@wizzy.com>
- Keywords: ANSI Toolset, dynamic configuration
- Organization: W.Z.I.
- References: <1jjopuINNbqs@iraul1.ira.uka.de>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:32:23 GMT
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- In article <1jjopuINNbqs@iraul1.ira.uka.de> mager@i41s12.ira.uka.de (Hendrik Mager) writes:
- >--
- >Hi,
- >I need some information and/or help on loading dynamical distributed
- >programs onto a transputernetwork without resetting the network.
- >
-
- You might look at a program called check, the basis of ispy. The source
- of check should be available. Last I knew, it was on
- archive-server@inmos.com.
-
- This does dynamic network loading, and dynamic code paging (into
- internal RAM).
-
- The technique is that the code on the Transputer is brought down to a
- single thread, and then there is some assembler that emulates the
- bootstrap mechanism, to reload code as if the machine were just being
- booted.
-
- It also includes tools to put your own bootstrap on the front of a
- compiled module. You could even twiddle the supplied bootstrap, though
- I wouldn't recommend it.
-
- The module must have a fixed parameter list - I think only one INT which
- is the bootstrapping link.
-
- Cheers, Andy. (getting rusty on this stuff :-)
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