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Re: solib: URL patch


On Wednesday, Aug 13, 2003, at 13:25 Pacific/Auckland, Tom Tromey wrote:

I'd like to check in the solib: URL patch, but first I thought I'd
ask the list, since this is a strange sort of patch, adding somewhat
unusual functionality under the hood.

The basic idea of the patch is to add a new kind of URL, "solib:".
Accessing resources from a URL of this form causes libgcj to dlopen
the appropriate library and look inside it.  In conjunction with a
change to URLClassLoader, this makes it very easy to load classes
from shared libraries in a controlled way.

Cool - but it would be good to have some clues that this functionality exists, ie documentation in gcj.texi! I think its important that areas where we have functionality that is unique to GCJ get documented, but this is something we've sometimes failed to do well at in the past.

Regards

Bryce.



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