Re: Initialization of static anonymous-namespace members from a dynamically loaded lib
"James Kanze" <james.kanze@gmail.com>
All I can say is that the meaning has changed. I learned most
of this stuff a long time ago, and back then, library very
definitely had the meaning I associate with it. (The
conversations I remember in the C committee also go back some in
time.) And in the Unix world, we spoke of "shared objects", and
not shared libraries. IMHO, we've lost something in loosing
this distinction.
Yeah, as I see it, the meaning of term "library" got diluted. Not for really
good. The original name "shared object" made more sense.
And the windoze name DLL meaning 'Dynamic Link Library' is plain broken, as
windows never had the linker involved at execution time, the DLL is handled
by the module loader and only involves the segment/address fixups. DLL may
come without a single symbol exported binding entry points just through
ordinals. If export names are provided they are not by the system but by the
client progam to get an address. (compilers can use a trick through
"implib", providing stubs and jmp tables, but the idea is the same in the
deep.)
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questioned at the police station.
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