Re: [Playerstage-users] Re: [Playerstage-developers] Plugins (reminder)

[Brian G. <ge...@ai...>]

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Reed Hedges wrote:

> On Jul 25, 2004, at 9:09 PM, ahoward wrote:
> >   Alternatively, if anyone knows a generic fix for this, I would
> > be keen to hear it.
> 
> What I do for plugins is have the application (player in this case) 
> call a certain C function in the plugin after loading it, e.g. "void 
> player_driver_init(...)".

That is a superb idea, which we should follow.  But I have a question:

How does the loader behave if you provide multiple definitions of a
symbol in different libs?

For example, I load module 1, which defines player_driver_init(), and
I call player_driver_init().  Then I load module 2, which differently
defines player_driver_init(), and I call it again.  Does the second
definition seamlessly overwrite the first?

        brian.

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Brian P. Gerkey                    ge...@ai...
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