From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 1 11:48:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA24508 for current-outgoing; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 11:48:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA24503 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 11:48:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA11846; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 12:32:14 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199704011932.MAA11846@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: A new Kernel Module System To: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 12:32:14 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199704011859.KAA01029@austin.polstra.com> from "John Polstra" at Apr 1, 97 10:59:07 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > One big issue, IMO, is that the symbol munging can be made to "go > > away", so long as you sort the vtable contents, and call by vtable > > offset. This assumes a vtable implementation very much like that > > used by Microsoft, actually > > You mean the one that they got a patent on? ;-) They don't have a patent on this...if anyone does, it's Intel, since they use the same thing for INT handling. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.