From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Dynamic loading progress Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 20:00:03 +0200 Message-ID: <83h9unukbg.fsf@gnu.org> References: <85oapy5kt6.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <83y4oiiw81.fsf@gnu.org> <838ugdf251.fsf@gnu.org> <87bnl1vmqf.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87vbj8tow4.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87r3twtagf.fsf@lifelogs.com> <85siebl7ws.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <85a90ilwmm.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <83386a6f7z.fsf@gnu.org> <85h9upjz7v.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <83wq3k3kl4.fsf@gnu.org> <85bnkwil1c.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <83pp9cwky8.fsf@gnu.org> <85a90ggf2d.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <54E0A40F.5080603@dancol.org> <83sie7un20.fsf@gnu.org> <54E0D181.2080802@dancol.org> <83r3trulse.fsf@gnu.org> <54E0D7E0.305@[87.69.4.28]> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1424023222 8632 80.91.229.3 (15 Feb 2015 18:00:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 18:00:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 15 19:00:13 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YN3UL-0006uH-F0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Feb 2015 19:00:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36151 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YN3UK-00008e-VV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Feb 2015 13:00:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59570) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YN3UE-0008WE-0U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Feb 2015 13:00:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YN3U9-0000BM-9N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Feb 2015 13:00:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout29.012.net.il ([80.179.55.185]:55926) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YN3U9-0000BC-1m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Feb 2015 13:00:01 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout29.012.net.il by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NJT00L00QVQOF00@mtaout29.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Feb 2015 19:56:01 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NJT00GHLR5DQ650@mtaout29.012.net.il>; Sun, 15 Feb 2015 19:56:01 +0200 (IST) Sun-Java-System-SMTP-Warning: Lines longer than SMTP allows found and truncated. In-reply-to: <54E0D7E0.3050805@dancol.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.185 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:183098 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 09:31:12 -0800 > From: Daniel Colascione > CC: stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > On 02/15/2015 09:28 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 09:04:01 -0800 > >> From: Daniel Colascione > >> CC: stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > >> > >> Modules provide an initialization function to Emacs: Emacs then > >> calls this initialization function with a pointer to a C structure > >> containing a table of function pointers. Modules call these function > >> pointers to do their work. > > > > How will modules know which function in the table does what job? > > Positionally, as fixed in the structure that defines the table. > > struct { > void (*func1)(int); > void (*func2)(double); > /* etc. */ > } > > This way, the ABI Emacs exports is explicit, and breaking it is unlikely > to happen accidentally. I see. Would you like to propose a list of functions that should be in that table? I don't mean function names, I mean a short description of each one of them.