Re: [Bug-apl] )ERASE and )CLEAR erases native functions

[Juergen Sauermann]

Hi Elias,

I see. Actually the callback was introduced already earlier on your behalf.
I have changed the code slightly so that the native functions gets 
really erased.
Lets see if that works, SVN 214.

/// Jürgen


On 04/18/2014 05:44 PM, Elias Mårtenson wrote:
> The problem is that the __attribute__ feature is GCC-specific. And the 
> other standard ways of handling callbacks when loading/unloading 
> libraries (__init and __fini) are also non-standard (they work on 
> Linux and Solaris to my knowledge but likely not on many others).
>
> I can't really think of a better way than a dedicated callback 
> function when the symbol is )ERASEd.
>
> Specifically, I would like to rollback any active transactions and 
> close all SQL connections when this happens.
>
> Being able to tell the interpreter to unload the library is less 
> important, although if the former is done, the latter is probably 
> trivial to implement?
>
> Regards,
> Elias