Re: [Chicken-users] A call to arms

[felix winkelmann]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Tobia Conforto
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Newbie question: can Chicken load and (more importantly) unload/reload a .so
> at runtime? I've never tried to.
>

There is some support for unloading the old instance of a .so, when
reloading it (at least on elf-ish systems), but it's unreliable: the C code
may still be referred to by live closures, which will crash, when still
invoked.


cheers,
felix