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Fergus Henderson 8a29f3f391 New module, containing support for dynamic linking
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extras/dynamic_linking/dl.m:
	New module, containing support for dynamic linking
	(i.e. a binding to dlopen(), dlsym(), and dlclose()).

extras/dynamic_linking/name_mangle.m:
	New module, containing a representation for Mercury procedure
	specifiers and a function for mangling them into symbol names.

extras/dynamic_linking/dl_test.m:
extras/dynamic_linking/dl_test.exp:
extras/dynamic_linking/hello.m:
	A test case (and sample program) for the use of dynamic linking.

extras/dynamic_linking/README:
	A brief README file describing the files in this directory.

extras/dynamic_linking/Mmakefile:
	A simple Mmakefile to build it all and test it.

NEWS:
	Mention the new dynamic linking support.

compiler/llds_out.m:
	Add some comments warning about code duplication
	between the code here and that in extras/dynamic_linking/name_mangle.m
	(and also profiler/demangle.m and util/mdemangle.c).
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This directory contains the following files:
dl.m:
A module containing support for dynamic linking
(i.e. a binding to the C functions dlopen(), dlsym(), and dlclose()).
name_mangle.m:
A module containing a representation for Mercury procedure
specifiers and a function for mangling them into symbol names
suitable for passing to dlsym().
dl_test.m:
hello.m:
dl_test.exp:
A sample program (and test case) for the use of dynamic linking.