Comments on BTF epilogue

Raab, Andreas Andreas.Raab at disney.com
Sun Jul 30 01:39:54 UTC 2000


> d) I don't think you explained the external prim lookup right. It's
> named-module first, followed by name-in-builtin-list, then fail. I
> think. Andreas?

You're right. And so is Dan ;-) The BTF epilogue doesn't distinguish between
external and builtin plugins (which I think would be an unnecessary
complication) so saying that the VM "looks for the module first and then for
the prim and then fails" is basically correct. A more detailed explanation
could say "looks for external module + prim first and if not present for
internal module + prim and then fails" but as I said this might be more
confusing than helpful.

  - Andreas





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