> (Which in itself tickles and scares the bejesus out of me.) Is there agood way of finding the standard C library on a Unix system other than hard-wiring it in like this?Yes. Parrot is linked with the standard C library. You can get a handle for the own executable by passing a NULL pointer to dlopen. You can also use this handle to call libc functions.
That's an interesting trick, albeit a very platform-dependent one. I can see adding in support for getting a handle on the current executable (though this is one of the cases where things may behave differently under the interpreter and as a compiled standalope app)
Given all this, I think that an alternate version of loadlib to open the current application is in order. (I'd say it should be a library routine, but since loadlib is already an op it seems in order) Perhaps loadlib with only one argument should give a handle on the current app, with callouts to a platform-specific loading routine. (The dlopen trick won't work on OS X right now, as well as Win32, since we fake out dlopen)
You can not pass a NULL pointer to loadlib at the moment, this small hacks "converts" an empty string to a NULL pointer to pass it to Parror_dlopen:
I've put in an alternate hack, one that returns NULL from string_to_cstring if passed in a NULL string pointer.
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