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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Dynamic linking on Apollo, how?
Message-ID: <1990Oct5.021647.3398@alphalpha.com>
Date: 5 Oct 90 02:16:47 GMT
References: <1990Oct4.150210.17095@sics.se>
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In article <1990Oct4.150210.17095@sics.se> attila@nmpbas.nmpcad.se (Attila Nemeth) writes:
>I have an application (interpreter) written under UNIX that
>are using dynamic linking. I want to port this application
>to BSD4.3 on Apollo.

This is certainly possible to do, although I'm afraid I no longer
have the code to do it.  It turns out to be really trivial, but
it requires undoc'd code.  All I recall (this was back in 9.5 days)
is that you make one call to load the binary, another call to
take a string and look up the address, and then you just call it
through the returned pointer.  If you think about it, this is
nothing more than an 'inlib' followed by an 'esa'.  But for the
life of me I can't remember the calls.  I suppose you could do
a 'nm' on /lib/* and guess :-).  Sorry.

					-kee
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