From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Dynamic loading of C libraries
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 20:15:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvzkzsrdy0.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1OEsNs-0006zo-2c@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 19 May 2010 19:09:04 -0400")
> I talked with our lawyer, and we determined that GCC's technique of
> checking for a symbol whose name says "I am under a GPL3-compatible
> license" is ok for Emacs and other GNU packages when dynamically
> loading libraries at the C level.
> So you can implement dynamic loading with the check for that symbol.
> If the symbol is not present then the function to load should
> report an error and not load it.
That's great news. So all we need now is for someone to submit a patch
that provides such dynamic loading functionality, and then start
using it.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-22 0:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-19 23:09 Dynamic loading of C libraries Richard Stallman
2010-05-21 7:25 ` joakim
2010-05-22 0:15 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2010-05-22 1:37 ` Leo
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