On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, John Marshall wrote:

Thanks for the clarification, and the pointer into the docs.  This will
certainly make things a lot simpler on this project.  The plan before was
to use a system shared library, but this way I don't have to worry about
coding for or calling system traps.

> What web page are you referring to?  It's either wrong or, apparently,
> unclear.

http://www.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu/pilot/GLib/GLib.html

The last paragraph in the "Creating applications that use GLib shared
libraries" is what I'm referring to.

> > That is, unless I can call functions in the app code directly from
> > the GLib.  Is this possible?
> 
> Directly?  Of course not -- half the point of a shared library is that
> you don't yet know what the app looks like at the time you build the
> shared library.  A direct call would require (in this limited DSO
> implementation) linking the app into the library. 

That's what I was thinking, but wanted to make sure.  Doing a "reverse"
function call like that I've done before in Linux, but I guess that DSO
implementation isn't nearly as limited :-)

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