RE: [Syllable-developer] libsyllable status

[Kristian V. <Kri...@an...>]

Jake Hamby
> Kristian Van Der Vliet wrote:
>>> Is it possible in ELF for both names to map to the same
>>> method, such that both old and new programs could find
>>> the appropriate method name without any special map file
>>> or dynamic linker support?
>> 
>> 
>> Yup.  See __attribute__ (alias) for example, which creates 
>> a symbol table entry as an alias for another symbol.  Glibc
>> relies on this heavily E.g.
> 
> That's good to know.  I found two other areas of libsyllable 
> that can be cleaned up.

We should also take into account the handful of classes which
do have public data members E.g. Rect.  Those public data members
can not be moved into a private class, so we might want to ensure
there is some extra storage available should we want to add or
change the public members E.g. uint8 __data[32]; which can be
re-used later.  Be did this with almost all of their classes, in
fact.

Wether we want to do this in every class, wether they currently
have public data members or not, is something else we should
consider.

-- 
Vanders
http://www.syllable.org
http://www.liqwyd.com

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