[gambit-list] Gambit's Linking Model

Christian Jaeger christian at pflanze.mine.nu
Thu Jun 14 05:04:32 EDT 2007


>From the point of view of reloading, there does not seem to be any
difference between statically linked objects and .oX object files! You
can link everything into one executable file and still "patch" that
binary exactly as if you had loaded all objects as .oX files. No need
for set! hackery. You can "have your cake and eat it too".

The rules which identifyers are fixed at compiletime through block
mode are still the same, regardless of linking mode. If you use the
same "block" granularity in building your .oX 'patch' files as you
have used to build your exe, there should be no problem.


$ cat test-load.scm
(declare
 (block)
 (standard-bindings)
 (extended-bindings))

(define (print-world)
  (display (list "Hello " world "\n")))

(print-world)
(##repl)

$ cat test-load-one.scm
(declare
 (block)
 (standard-bindings)
 (extended-bindings))

(define world "World")

(define (remote-print-world)
  (display (list "Hello " world "\n")))

$ gsc -link test-load-one test-load
test-load-one:
test-load:

$ gcc -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 test-load.c test-load-one.c test-load_.c  -I/usr/local/Gambit-C/current/include -L/usr/local/Gambit-C/current/lib -lgambc -lm -lutil -ldl -o test-load

$ ./test-load 
Hello World
>  (remote-print-world)
Hello World

change world in test-load-one.scm to "new World", from another shell issue
$ gsc test-load-one

then in the old running instance:
> (load "test-load-one")
"/home/chris/schemedevelopment/gambit/work/test-load-one.o1"
>  (remote-print-world) 
Hello new World
;; ^- this is because remote-print-world has been recompiled and 
;;    reloaded as well.
>  (print-world)       
Hello new World
> 

$ l
-rw-rw-r--  1 chris chris      304 2007-06-14 10:45 test-load.scm
-rw-rw-r--  1 chris chris     4679 2007-06-14 10:51 test-load.c
-rw-rw-r--  1 chris chris   389741 2007-06-14 10:51 test-load_.c
-rwxrwxr-x  1 chris chris    17323 2007-06-14 10:51 test-load
-rw-rw-r--  1 chris chris      179 2007-06-14 10:51 test-load-one.scm
-rwxrwxr-x  1 chris chris     7906 2007-06-14 10:52 test-load-one.o1





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