jap@convex.msu.edu (Joe Porkka) (06/02/90)
In the Amiga Dos Tech Ref manual, chapter 2 it mentions resident libraries that can be reference in a load file. These libraries get loaded and linked into the program at load time, so it says. What are these things? Remnants of Tripos? Is it something like waiting till load time to link in amiga.lib?
jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) (06/04/90)
In article <1990Jun2.010351.13424@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> jap@convex.msu.edu (Joe Porkka) writes: >In the Amiga Dos Tech Ref manual, chapter 2 it mentions resident >libraries that can be reference in a load file. These libraries get >loaded and linked into the program at load time, so it says. > >What are these things? Remnants of Tripos? Is it something >like waiting till load time to link in amiga.lib? The idea was that your libraries would be opened for you at load time, and references to them patched into your source. It never worked real well (partially since it had the order of names of libraries and entries reversed), and it didn't allow you to specify version or give error messages. Dropped in 2.0. I think it was something left over from Tripos/BCPL, for pulling in libraries of global-vector routines, but it doesn't really matter. -- Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering. {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com BIX: rjesup Common phrase heard at Amiga Devcon '89: "It's in there!"