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Re: dynamic reload of dynamic module not dynamic?
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: dynamic reload of dynamic module not dynamic? |
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Wed, 20 Apr 2022 20:06:17 +0300 |
> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 13:08:21 +0200
> From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
> <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
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> tomas wrote:
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> > This is not completely trivial. Parts of the application may
> > have become dependent on the loaded library. [...]
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> I don't see how that is any different from eval'ing a Lisp
> function
Because C is a compiled language, not an interpreted one, and the
rules and machinery involved in loading shared libraries are (a) much
more complex than the rules involved in loading Lisp, and (b) we don't
control how this stuff works because this is done by the OS, not by
Emacs.