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| 308 | ** Emacs can now load shared/dynamic libraries (modules). | 308 | ** Emacs can now load shared/dynamic libraries (modules). |
| 309 | A dynamic Emacs module is a shared library that provides additional | 309 | A dynamic Emacs module is a shared library that provides additional |
| 310 | functionality for use in Emacs Lisp programs, just like a package | 310 | functionality for use in Emacs Lisp programs, just like a package |
| 311 | written in Emacs Lisp would. The functions `load' and `require' were | 311 | written in Emacs Lisp would. The functions `load', `require', |
| 312 | extended to load such modules, as they do with Emacs Lisp packages. | 312 | `load-file', etc. were extended to load such modules, as they do with |
| 313 | Emacs Lisp packages. The new variable `module-file-suffix' holds the | ||
| 314 | system-dependent value of the file-name extension (`.so' on Posix | ||
| 315 | hosts) of the module files. | ||
| 313 | 316 | ||
| 314 | A module should export a C-callable function named | 317 | A module should export a C-callable function named |
| 315 | `emacs_module_init', which Emacs will call as part of the call to | 318 | `emacs_module_init', which Emacs will call as part of the call to |