ATS_DYNLOADFLAG

[Mike Jones]

Does ATS_DYNLOADFLAG 0 in a dats file mean automatically init the file if compiled, or just prevent compile errors if not dyloaded, meaning do not do this if there are values to init?

[Hongwei Xi]

Normally, ATS compiler generates a function for each file

that must be called before values and functions defined in

the file can be used.

If ATS_DYNLOADFLAG is set to 0, then such a function is not

generated and the programmer needs to take care of issue of initialization

on their own. Just like in C.

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 1:44 PM, Mike Jones <proc...@gmail.com> wrote:

Does ATS_DYNLOADFLAG 0 in a dats file mean automatically init the file if compiled, or just prevent compile errors if not dyloaded, meaning do not do this if there are values to init?

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[Barry Schwartz]

Hongwei Xi <gmh...@gmail.com> skribis:

> Normally, ATS compiler generates a function for each file
> that must be called before values and functions defined in
> the file can be used.
>
> If ATS_DYNLOADFLAG is set to 0, then such a function is not
> generated and the programmer needs to take care of issue of initialization
> on their own. Just like in C.

Yeah, I’m using ATS to make C libraries and so in those cases set
ATS_DYNLOADFLAG to 0 and invent workarounds to avoid having any ‘val’
at top level. (libatomic_ops could be useful for that BTW.)