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From: hartzell@boulder.Colorado.EDU (George Hartzell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: ld -A
Keywords: incremental/dynamic loading
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Date: 4 Oct 90 17:14:51 GMT
References: <1990Oct2.141512.14901@maytag.waterloo.edu>
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In-reply-to: drclark@maytag.waterloo.edu (David R. Clark)

In article <1990Oct2.141512.14901@maytag.waterloo.edu>, drclark@maytag (David R. Clark) writes:
>The man page for "ld" mentions the -A option which should allow
>dynamic loading of new code segments.  How is this done (it says
>something about allowing the code to be read in but does not say
>how to read it in)?  I would really appreciate an example.

Pick up a copy of elk.  It uses dynamic loading, and it works on the MIPS. 
g.


   >A new release of the Elk Scheme implementation ("Extension Language Kit")
   >is available for anonymous FTP on
   >
   >  mcsun.eu.net   [192.16.202.1]  (~ftp/programming/languages/elk-scheme/)
   >  and
   >  funic.funet.fi [128.214.6.100] (~ftp/pub/unix/languages/scheme/).
   >
   >The file name is elk-1.2.tar.Z (0.5 MBytes).
   >
   >Several people have contributed to this version, among them Don Hopkins
   >(SPARC port), George Hartzell (MIPS port, ECOFF support), Zalman Stern
   >(IBM-RT), Paul Breslaw (HP9000), and Carsten Bormann (portable alloca).
   >Piet Beertema and Tero Mononen kindly helped me to put the distribution
   >on the above FTP sites.
   >
   >Major improvements with respect to version 1.0 (which was posted to
   >comp.sources.misc last year) are:
   >
   >    - support for X11 Release 4
   >    - interface to the OSF/Motif widgets
   >    - better documentation
   >    - ported to new machines (Sun-4, HP9000, MIPS, and others)
   >    - a "portable version" of the software can be installed on new
   >      machines without requiring assembly language support any longer
   >
   >If you don't know what Elk is, or if you don't know whether you want it,
   >you can read the release notes at the end of this message.
   >
   >Regards,
   >--
   >    Oliver Laumann, Technical University of Berlin, Germany.
   >    pyramid!tub!net   net@TUB.BITNET   net@tub.cs.tu-berlin.de
   >
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