Re: atexit in modules

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Mike Gran <address@hidden> writes:

> Idea 1 was to wrap as library_init() as a scheme function that gets
> called when the scheme module is loaded, and then wrap library_end()
> as a scheme function that gets called when the module is unloaded.
> But, modules are never unloaded.

Yeah, that detail was the fun part of my proposal.  :-)

> Idea 4: So ultimately I went with this.  The C function library_init()
> gets called in init_foo() in the call to (load-extension "libfoo.so"
> "init_foo").  The C function library_end() gets registered using the
> libc atexit() during the same call to init_foo().  That works fine.

Indeed, couldn't be any simpler.

Thanks,
Ludo'.