DynamicLinking.md: add notes about memory/table exports #234
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| The commonly used C conventions including WASIp1 require modules to | ||
| export the "memory" memory and the "__indirect_function_table" table. |
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Use backticks here instead of quotes?
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| On the other hand, non-PIE executables need to export these instance | ||
| resources as usual. | ||
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| ## Implementation Status |
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I wonder if we can/should add something under this header for wasi now?
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do you mean to update the implementation status section?
| However, because PIE executables with this dynamic-linking convention | ||
| are already importing these instance resources, it's redundant to | ||
| export them as well. For that reason, for PIE executables, we don't | ||
| require these resources exported. |
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Who is "we" here? If its WASI the perhaps this belongs in the wasi repo instead?
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i guess it should be in both. (wasi and here)
i added it here first because i feel the memory/table convention is more widely used than just wasi.
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| export them as well. For that reason, for PIE executables, we don't | ||
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| Shared libraries don't need to export these instance resoures either |
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"Shared libraries should also import these resources, since they share a memory and function table with the main module."
This is my attempt to capture the discussion in
#232