Re: [MACTCL] Itcl on MacOSX

[Daniel A. S. <st...@ic...>]

At 9:55 +0000 on 15/2/02, James Bonfield wrote:

>Note that there also seems to be a bug in MacOS X where if "native" is a file
>that does not exist then instead of returning a failure (as the docs state)
>the process simply exits! Wonderful...

AFAIK this is not a bug, just the default behaviour if no 
LinkEditErrorHandlers are installed.

man 3 NSModule:

        If the dynamic shared library has not already been  loaded
        it  along  with  all  the  needed  dependent libraries are
        loaded.  With the options parameter NSADDIMAGE_OPTION_NONE
        then  any  error  in loading will cause the linkEdit error
        handler set  by  NSInstallLinkEditErrorHandlers(3)  to  be
        called  or  the  default  action of printing the error and
        exiting to be taken.

also see 
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/ReleaseNotes/TwoLevelNamespaces.html

probably we should rewrite tclLoadDyld.c using the 10.1 
TwoLevelNamespaces API anyway.

Cheers,

Daniel
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