Re: [PATCH] HPUX dynamic library loading support for 5.3.0 (rc0) [Was Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (rc0) now available]

["Gary V. Vaughan" <gary@...>]

Hi Luiz,

On Dec 15, 2014, at 6:17 PM, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>> I've been meaning to post this patch for consideration for several years.
> 
> Talk about the speed of Lua releases... :-)

I've been selfishly keeping it to myself all the while, sorry!  But, who uses
HPUX 11.00 these days, anyway? ;-)

>> adding support for loading of dynamic libraries on IA64 and HPPA HPUX 11.00 and newer.
> 
> My loadlib library for Lua 4.0 released in 2002 already contained a port of
> dlopen and friends which seems similar to yours:
> 	http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~lhf/ftp/lua/#loadlib
> However, I doubt it has been widely tested, so thanks for this.
> People searching for this in the lua-l archives will be glad to find your post.

Indeed.  Maybe even me, since I already lost it once and had to rewrite it.

(Hello, future self!)

Cheers,
-- 
Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT vaughan DOT pe)