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From: Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org>
To: cong gu <gucong43216@gmail.com>
Cc: wingo@pobox.com, guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: using GSL with cblas via FFI
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 06:15:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d35fn24s.fsf@gnuvola.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH_4JjMHzEQ42Mj1E8h=skudqSOihCrA9a3Br4AUbPz++PkE+w@mail.gmail.com> (cong gu's message of "Sun, 3 Jun 2012 17:04:29 -0500")

() cong gu <gucong43216@gmail.com>
() Sun, 3 Jun 2012 17:04:29 -0500

   I found libtool offers a way to make a shared library globally
   available.  So I wrote a patch that provides `dynamic-link-global'.
   A call like `(dynamic-link-global "libgslcblas")' should make
   things work.

   I don't know whether it is portable, though.  Documentation of
   libtool mentioned that not all loaders are able to act upon this
   `advice'.

Aside from portability, there is also coherence in design to consider.
In (info "(libtool) Libltdl interface") i see seven funcs that take
‘lt_dladvise *ADVISE’:

 lt_dladvise_init
 lt_dladvise_destroy
 lt_dladvise_ext
 lt_dladvise_global
 lt_dladvise_local
 lt_dladvise_resident
 lt_dladvise_preload

The first two manage the object; the last five mutate its internals.

Your proposal sequences ‘lt_dladvise_ext’ and ‘lt_dladvise_global’
with ‘lt_dlopenadvise’, essentially.  This is fine for your needs
today, no doubt.  How about further on, when you need _resident
or _preload, or _FOO (in some future libtool release), or when you
want _global but not _ext?

With five bits, you have 32 combinations (actually less, as not all
combinations are meaningful, e.g., _global and _local together).  It
would be awkward to eventually find all these combinations wrapped
individually, in C and exposed to Scheme.  What is a better way?



  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-04  4:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-03 22:04 using GSL with cblas via FFI cong gu
2012-06-04  4:15 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen [this message]
2012-06-04  6:11   ` cong gu
2012-06-04  4:22 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-03-24 14:54 Johan Hidding
2011-03-25 20:31 ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-03-26  9:53   ` Johan Hidding
2011-03-31 15:18     ` Andy Wingo

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