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From: stt@houdini.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft)
Subject: Re: dynamic loading and Ada95
Date: 1997/10/28
Date: 1997-10-28T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <EIrr5r.6yI.0.-s@inmet.camb.inmet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87iuujxeb1.fsf@laplace.casi.polymtl.ca


Louis-Dominique Dubeau (ldd@step.polymtl.ca) wrote:

: I'm looking for implementations of dynamic loading for Ada95.  I made
: an implementation of dynamic loading for Modula-3 and wish to compare.

The AppletMagic(TM) Ada95 => Java byte code compiler uses
dynamic loading.

: The problematic in both cases should be similar in at least two points:

: - how to integrate package information after a dynamic load

Java has the notion of "class initialization" routines.  These
are executed after a class is loaded.  In our mapping, a package
spec and a package body each turn into a Java class, each with
its own class-init routine.  These are executed when the package
is loaded.

: - how to integrate tagged type information after a dynamic load and update
:   the tagged types tree

Our tagged type "tree" (used by Ada.Tags.Internal_Tag(String)) is
built up dynamically, as a result of "elaborating" the declaration
of a tagged type.  So dynamic loading does not cause a problem.

: 	Thanks,
: 	ldd

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-Tucker Taft   stt@inmet.com   http://www.inmet.com/~stt/
Intermetrics, Inc.  Burlington, MA  USA




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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-10-27  0:00 dynamic loading and Ada95 Louis-Dominique Dubeau
1997-10-28  0:00 ` Tucker Taft [this message]
1997-10-29  0:00   ` Louis-Dominique Dubeau
1997-10-30  0:00     ` Tucker Taft
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