> Attached is a rather large patch to 21.0.61 to support DLL loading. I
> havent done changelog entries yet but this is pretty complete, even a
> manual. This has the new ellcc compiler program, and a much more complete
> and well defined interface. Modules are now 100% the same as built-in
> code, so it should be easy to migrate stuff out of the dumped Emacs into
> loadable modules. Please apply this (with -E to remove some empty files)
> and try it out. I think this works pretty well. No doubt I will have to
> polish things a little but I would really like to see this stuff in the
> tree sooner rather than later so that people can get used to the idea,
> and we can start thinking about which parts of the currently dumped
> Emacs we want to turn into modules.
It might make sense to make future patches against 21.2.8 (or 21.2.9
when Martin releases it), rather than 21.0.61? I doubt such a large
change will make it into the 21.0 series this late into its
development.
I tried to use this patch on 21.2.8 and got several rejections.
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Richard Coleman
coleman(a)math.gatech.edu
