[comp.sys.amiga.programmer] OpenLibrary

mcr@Sandelman.OCUnix.On.Ca (Michael Richardson) (03/10/91)

In article <92299@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <meranda@iguana.cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:
>1) Does OpenLibrary cheat and expect to find a romtag structure at the
>   beginning of the "executable" file, or does it perform an actual romtag
>   scan, like when exec is starting up.  (This lazy method is hinted at in
>   RKM Includes+Autodocs, p.A-28, in the function exec/InitResident).

  On a slightly different note --- is there another function available
for loading 'library'-like things from places other than LIBS:? As 'a
device is a library' OpenDevice() is obviously able to load from DEVS:
  Is the solution to LoadSeg() and then (after finding the RomTag I
guess) do an AddLibrary()? 
  I do know about Arp's LoadLib --- requiring that all parts be
preloaded would undermine what we are trying to do by breaking things
up into a bunch of 'private' libraries. 

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