Re: load and use a ".o" file?

[lifetime n00b <anonymous@yahoo.com>]

Stephen Leake wrote:
> You are re-inventing the wheel! 

No, I'm just trying to find the wheel I need! Honest. If I thought I'd 
have to reinvent the thing, I'd be the first to point out that I'm the 
last one qualified to do so, and then I'd just try to find a square I 
could use instead (in this case, maybe a byte-code VM?). :-)

> It may seem straightforward, but it gets quite complicated. 

So I have found.

 > Fortunately, it has been solved.

I think I may be able to use dlopen and dlsym on Linux with an Ada 
wrapper, but I was hoping for an Ada-only solution that would be 
cross-platform (letting gnat take all the nasty details from me). But 
that's just me hoping for a wheel that can fly...

> Most good ideas have been thought of before :).

And almost all of them were thought of by Kepler (just don't tell that 
to Newton)! :)