Re: Module autoloading?

[Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 7:04 AM, Seth Goldberg<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  Has the idea come up of having a file that maps commands to module names
> along with the required code to autoload the corresponding module(s) when
> the corresponding commands are used (something like:
Actually it's already implemented. Look a commands.lst and normal/dyncmd.c
>
> <commandname>:  <modulename>.mod [, <modulename>.mod ...]
>
> i.e.:
>
> multiboot:      multiboot.mod
> linux:          linux.mod
> ...
> \
>
>
> (Obviously, we could also have the convention of trying to load
> <commandname>.mod, but having an explicit mapping would remove the overhead
> of trying to find a module that doesn't exist, and loading multiple modules
> may not be needed as well).
>
>  --S
>
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