Laws@SRI-AI.ARPA@sri-unix.UUCP (07/16/84)
From: Ken Laws <Laws@SRI-AI.ARPA> Dynamic linking is available in Unix, or at least in any Unix that supports Franz cfasl. David Kashtan used that as a template to build a dynamic linker for our system; now any C program can link new routines into its own runtime image. (We run Eunice, but the same technique should work for any operating system.) If you want to stick with traditional software, you can use system calls to invoke the compiler and/or linker, then run the resulting image. This isn't full dynamic linking, but it can be good enough for compiling highly efficient filters, Fourier transforms, image processing operators, etc. I have seen this technique used in U. Maryland image processing code. -- Ken Laws -------