[gambit-list] Can't load a given object file more than once

Per Eckerdal per.eckerdal at gmail.com
Sun Mar 22 04:50:35 EDT 2009


> Sure, I understand that Gambit is preventing a reload of the exact  
> same
> object file. But it must be doing a very simple accounting based on  
> the
> name of the object file. Perhaps you can employ that newfangled
> high-performance file digest code that was recently shared. ;-)
>
> Anywho, no big deal. But it's a surprise.

It's not Gambit, but the operating system that imposes this  
limitation. As far as I understand it, this is one reason to why  
Gambit compiles files into .o1 then .o2 and so on; you can load a .o1  
file, recompile and then load the .o2 file.

/Per




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