Re: dynamic linking
[email protected] (Paul Jarc)
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Uwe Ohse <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 04:45:08PM -0400, Paul Jarc wrote: >> Structured data can be passed in and out, unlike >> with pipes between separate programs, where parsing is needed. > > This has nothing to do with shared libraries and / or with pipes. > In fact this sentence makes no sense at all. If you want to exchange structured data with other code, and you're communicating with that code via pipes, then you must use parsing (when reading) and quoting (when writing) to serialize the data over the pipe. OTOH, with shared libraries, you can just pass pointers to structures; no serialization is needed. paul