Benjie Chen: Click Dynamic loading (fwd)

[Eddie Kohler]

this is a message from purdue via ben-JEE-eh...

Oh by the way the head of the eecs department at berkeley [richard newton]
is using our software and calls it "fabulous technology"!

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I thought those packages are generated by the devirtualize tool.
Eddie?

Benjie

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> Hi:
> 
>     We are grad students at  Purdue CS dept working on a networking
> project. We came across click and we were interested in the dynamic
> loading part of it.  We have a basic understanding of what it does; we
> do have few questions on it.
> 
> We need to use click to dynamically load modules which are downloaded
> from remote Code Servers using CORBA and then use these modules to work
> on packets. These modules which are downloaded, are decided by 'active'
> packets that are handled by Click.  Our question is :
> 
> Essentially, we use click-devirtualise to remove virtual calls and make
> the click module more efficient in terms of run-time calls. But how does
> one use it to generate the 'dynamic loadable packages'  as you call it.
> If I have written a class in myclass.cc and generated myclass.o then how
> do I make an archive. How do I refer to it in the configuration file ?
> 
> Please show us some examples.
> 
> Thanks,
> Prem Gopalan
> (gopalan at purdue.edu)
> 
>  Senthil Kumar
> 
> CS Dept,
> Purdue Univ
> 
> 


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Benjie Chen
benjie at lcs.mit.edu

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