openssl/crypto/dso/README
Geoff Thorpe e9a68cfbc3 Currently the DSO_METHOD interface has one entry point to bind all
"symbols" including functions (of all prototypes( and variables. Whilst
casting any function type to another violates ANSI C (I believe), it is
a necessary evil in shared-library APIs. However, it is quite
conceivable that functions in general and data symbols could very well
be represented differently to each other on some systems, as Bodo said;

> Since the function/object distinction is a lot more likely to be
> important on real-life platforms supporting DSO *and* it can be quite
> easily done *and* it will silence compilers that don't like
> assignments from void pointers to function pointer variables, why
> not do it?

I agree. So this change splits the "dso_bind" handler in DSO_METHOD
into "dso_bind_var" and "dso_bind_func". Similarly the exported
function DSO_bind() has been split in two. I've also put together
changes for the various DSO_METHOD implementations, but so far only
DSO_dlfcn() has been tested. BTW: The prototype for dso_bind had been
a bit strange so I've taken the opportunity to change its shape (in
both variations).

Also, the README has been updated - particularly with a note about
using customised native name-translation for shared libraries (and that
you can't do it yet).
2000-06-16 10:45:36 +00:00

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TODO
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Find a way where name-translation can be done in a way that is
sensitive to particular methods (ie. generic code could still do
different path/filename substitutions on win32 to what it does on
*nix) but doesn't assume some canonical form. Already one case
exists where the "blah -> (libblah.so,blah.dll)" mapping doesn't
suffice. I suspect a callback with an enumerated (or string?)
parameter could be the way to go here ... DSO_ctrl the callback
into place and it can be invoked to handle name translation with
some clue to the calling code as to what kind of system it is.
NOTES
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I've checked out HPUX (well, version 11 at least) and shl_t is
a pointer type so it's safe to use in the way it has been in
dso_dl.c. On the other hand, HPUX11 support dlfcn too and
according to their man page, prefer developers to move to that.
I'll leave Richard's changes there as I guess dso_dl is needed
for HPUX10.20.