At 7:21 PM +0100 6/12/02, Tom Hughes wrote:
>In message <a05111b2fb92c9ba1ac83@[63.120.19.221]>
>           Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>  The exported name should be the MD5 checksum of a string that
>>  represents the actual routine name we're looking for. This, I think,
>>  should be specified somewhere external to the library, in some sort
>>  of metadata file, I think. (Not sure, I'm waffling here. But we need
>>  this to be unique)
>
>Why does it need to be unique if it's not going to be linked
>against anything? If you're just finding the name with dlsym() or
>equivalent then you can just use the same name in all the libraries
>and it won't clash.

I'm pretty sure this'll run us into problems in some places. I'm 
trying to dig up some details at the moment.
-- 
                                         Dan

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