Re: Registries

At 23:13 2003-07-16, David Abrahams wrote:
>Daniel Wallin <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > One thing; the converter-registries aren't really bound to modules
> > though are they?
>
>That's the intention.
>
> > They are really just bound to the shared library.
>
>That's not the intention.  Converter registrations would occur within
>the context of some current module scope, which would stick them into
>a particular...
>
> > So if you have multiple modules in the same shared library you would
> > automatically share registries as well.
>
>Agh, I think there may be a serious problem for registry scoping
>here.  At least on most Unices, all extension modules linked to the
>same langbinding .so are prone to share a single copy of
>registration<T> for any T.

I don't get this. Wouldn't registration<T> reside in the modules shared
library, and thus not be shared? I might be stupid here though, shared
libraries isn't exactly my area of expertise. ;)

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Daniel Wallin



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