Re: wip-rtl status

[Andy Wingo]

On Mon 04 Jun 2012 23:12, address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Andy Wingo <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> However something like '(1 . (2 . ())) has two pairs: the tail which has
>> two immediates, and the head that has an immediate in the car but a
>> pointer in the cdr.  In that case you need to patch up the cdr to point
>> to the tail, after you load the .go (or .so?) file.
>
> Actually, it could typically be patched by the loader, just like what
> happens with the variables emitted by ‘SCM_IMMUTABLE_STRING’ and such, no?
>
> (Hmm, perhaps that’s what you meant?)

Yes, that is what I meant.  Either you emit relocations into the ELF
file, and rely on the dynamic loader to interpret them, or you compile a
procedure to do the relocations and call it as an init function.
Wip-rtl does the latter, because that way we can also do one-time
initializations like string->symbol, string->number, etc.

Andy
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