Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!auspex!guy From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: Questions about printing... Message-ID: <5706@auspex.auspex.com> Date: 4 Feb 91 18:18:21 GMT References: <9102030836.AA04305@frob.eng.umd.edu> Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Lines: 15 >The good news is that Guy Harris is working on a >new version of the class system that makes use of the builtin Sun4 >dynamic loading support. It's not a new version of the entire "class" system, it's a new version of "doload()" that uses the SunOS 4.1 dynamic loading support. It's not quite as big as the blurb above makes it sound.... :-) Also, it's not tied to Sun-4s; however, it *is* tied to SunOS 4.1 or later - the procedural interface to the run-time loader first appeared in SunOS 4.1. If you're running SunOS 4.0[.x], it won't help you out. It may also serve as a basis for a System V Release 4 version of the "class" support, as S5R4 has a "-ldl" library like SunOS 4.1's. (Better than trying to port the existing "dlopen()" stuff to ELF....)