Dynamic loading (was re: Java Illusion)

[Andrew J Berkley <berkley@wam.umd.edu>]

On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, Joe Vaughan wrote:
> I'm primarily the one doing the dynamic module loading stuff for 
> mnemonic, and in recent times, I've been having nightmares about ELF 
> dynamic loading.
> 
> There is one simple reason why I believe now that using dynamic 
> library typew files won't work well in the real world and that is 
> that is precludes the possibility of making a proper statically 
> linked core that dynamically loads objects at runtime.

Perhaps you could explain the problem more...  With the new messaging
system, almost no fixups need to be made when loading an object (all you
need is to have the message .o files loaded).  Of course it would be nice
to do real dynamic linking (for non-message based things).  This was one
of the nice features of the new message passing system -- objects could
even be running on a separate computer, as long as there were wrapper
message passing objects.

Andrew