[Vm-dev] Add argvec and envec to sqVirtualMachine.[ch]? (was: FT2Plugin stops working with latest version)

[David T. Lewis]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 05:19:48PM +0200, Igor Stasenko wrote:
>  
> So, my proposal is to add
> TheArgC and TheArgV variables to exports table of system module,
> in same way as on windows it uses to expose stWindow variable:
> 
> 
> void *os_exports[][3] = {
> ...
>   {"","stWindow", &stWindow},
>   {"", "argc" , &theArgc }
> ....
> };
> 
> 
> then any plugin could lookup for given symbol using ioLoadFunction() function,
> and if there is no such symbol, then ok.. it will answer null , fail
> the primitive etc etc.
> 
> So, there is no need to change an API, just need to add few entries to
> os_exports structure.

To check my understanding, do you mean #ioLoadFunction:From: as implemented
in vm/sqNamedPrims.c, so the idea would be to treat the main VM as a module,
and load functions that answer the argvec and envvec from that module?

Dave