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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 1999
Filed:
Feb. 27, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Robert Paul Duncan, Scarborough, CA;
Mike Stephen Fulton, Don Mills, CA;
Brian James Minchau, North York, CA;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
709305 ;
Abstract
In present computing systems having dynamic linked libraries (DLLs), the user must either explicitly provide directives at the source level or use linker and loader support provided by the computing system. The present invention enables an application programmer to use unmodified source code in conjunction with a compiler, prelinker and runtime library to develop and use DLLs. A DLL can be extended by adding new functions and variables without requiring users of the DLL to recompile or relink their application.