From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "jronald" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Very basic questions. Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 19:18:06 +0800 Organization: Bentium Ltd. (CN99) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1158406830 1284 80.91.229.2 (16 Sep 2006 11:40:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 11:40:30 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 16 13:40:30 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GOYX7-0007f3-Ju for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:40:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GOYX7-00023d-5C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 07:40:29 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!news.neu.edu.cn!news.szu.edu.cn!news.cn99.com!news.yaako.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 222.64.162.33 Original-X-Trace: news.yaako.com 1158405487 16198 222.64.162.33 (16 Sep 2006 11:18:07 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.yaako.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 11:18:07 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2670 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2670 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:141787 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:37409 Archived-At: "John Sullivan" ??????:mailman.7000.1158379340.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org... > "jronald" writes: > >> Take "require" for example. > > Sorry, example of what? > as below >> How does it know where the feature list is? Or, how does feature list >> make >> itself to be found by functions? > > Libraries that provide features include a (provide 'foofeature). > > The feature list is stored in the variable called features. > In runtime, how does "require" know where the feature list is? There is only machine code then. > -- > -John Sullivan > -http://www.wjsullivan.net > -GPG Key: AE8600B6 > > >