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From: vasta@apollo.HP.COM (John Vasta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Dynamic linking on Apollo, how?
Summary: User loader_$ functions
Message-ID: <4d4d5d08.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>
Date: 9 Oct 90 22:32:00 GMT
References: <1990Oct4.150210.17095@sics.se> <1990Oct5.021647.3398@alphalpha.com>
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In article <1990Oct5.021647.3398@alphalpha.com> nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) writes:
>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.

I think what Kee is referring to is now documented. Check out the loader_$
calls in the latest Domain/OS Call Reference, or do "man a loader_intro"
to get an introductory man page (assuming you have the Apollo man pages
installed). This should be in SR10.2 at least.


John Vasta                Hewlett-Packard Apollo Systems Division
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