On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 11:58 -0800, Richard E Maine wrote:
> On Nov 10, 2005, at 11:44 AM, Russell, Richard wrote:
>
> > Since this sort of thing is technically feasible, it really would be
> > nice if the vendors of linkers for Windows and other operating systems
> > provided the equivalent facility for developers. Have they?
>
> Yes. See the dl library on Unix systems (and some sample code in my
> previous posting). It is my understanding that WIndows dlls are roughly
> comparable, though I don't work much on that side.
>
> Handy and portable - no, we don't have that. But the underlying
> capabilities do exist and have for a long time. I think that progress
> is being made on the handy and portable part, though it is slow. F2003
> procedure pointers are a small, but important step in the direction.
Richard may remember that I proposed to standardize access to dynamic
linking as an optional part of Fortran 2008. That proposal was not
advocated by J3 (ANSI technical committee), nor by any national body,
and is therefore not on the ISO...WG5 committee work list.
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