Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Fix #1133

[Felix Winkelmann]

From: Peter Bex <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Fix #1133
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 17:55:10 +0200

> On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 05:39:35PM +0200, Felix Winkelmann wrote:
>> > 
>> > I'm not convinced we need separate loading and importing either, as long
>> > as it doesn't interfere with separate compilation.  Right now everyone
>> > always ends up doing (use ...) anyway.  Perhaps Felix can show us an
>> > example where only an import (no loading of code) is useful, or otherwise
>> > how I'm missing the point?
>> 
>> Static linking? Having several modules (library units) in a single
>> library (as in libchicken itself)?
> 
> As far as I understand, if you statically link a program which contains
> a (use foo) clause, you can link it together with foo.a, and it won't
> try to load anything dynamically.  Is that correct?

No, it will try to load "foo.so" dynamically. Some builtin library
units are treated as a special case.


felix