On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 05:45:10PM +0100, Joe Orton wrote: > On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 11:10:52AM -0500, William Rowe wrote: > > Joe Orton wrote: > > >Any objections? This adds support for the usual RTLD_* flags to be > > >specified by the caller along with the glibc-specific and very useful > > >RTLD_DEEPBIND; any other implementation-specific flags can be added too > > >of course. > > > > Yup - the proposal you presented is totally nonportable, so -1 as > > presented. Take a look at; > > > > http://www.hmug.org/man/3/dyld.php > > seems to have direct equivalents: > APR_DSO_LOCAL -> NSLINKMODULE_OPTION_PRIVATE > APR_DSO_NOW -> NSLINKMODULE_OPTION_BINDNOW > > > http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90695/shl_load.3X.html > > APR_DSO_NOW -> BIND_IMMEDIATE / APR_DSO_LAZY -> BIND_DEFERRED > global/local hints ignored > > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dllproc/base/loadlibraryex.asp > > all hints ignored AFAICT > > So what is "unportable" about this exactly? Platforms which don't > implement the specified hints will ignore them as the apidoc describes.
ping regarding veto on "unportable" code.
