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Re: [bug-gawk] [PATCH 2/2] Fix plugin load failure on OS/2


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: [bug-gawk] [PATCH 2/2] Fix plugin load failure on OS/2
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 17:05:47 +0300

> From: KO Myung-Hun <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 22:32:25 +0900
> 
> OS/2 cannot load DLLs whose base name is longer than 8 characters.
> Because of this, libtool limits length of DLL base name up to 8
> characters. In Gawk, limits likewise.

Isn't it better/cleaner to have an OS/2 wrapper for dlopen, and
truncate the name there?  (And why doesn't dlopen itself do that, if
this is an OS/2 limitation?)

Thanks.



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