Re: [cffi-devel] Set :dlopen-flags to :global-lazy in %load-foreign-library in lispworks?

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On Mon, 18 May 2009 10:26:57 +0900, John Fremlin said:

Martin Simmons martin@lispworks.com writes: [...]

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Ah, I see.

Another way around this problem is to make a dummy library (using ld) that references the others and load the dummy library first.

I don't like the idea of setting :dlopen-flags to :global-lazy because it breaks situations where the same symbol is defined in more than one library.

That's all very well, but as other Lisps (SBCL, Allegro, etc.) with CFFI load-foreign-library use global binding, why should Lispworks be the exception?

It is up to CFFI maintainers what they decide, but we have found local to be more useful than global.

I can't comment on other implmentations...