On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 22:19:52 -0700, Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org> wrote:
>
> Incidentally, I see the following in README.earthdistance:
>
> A note on testing C extensions - it seems not enough to drop a function
> and re-create it - if I change a function, I have to stop and restart
> the backend for the new version to be seen. I guess it would be too
> messy to track which functions are added from a .so and do a dlclose
> when the last one is dropped.
>
> Maybe you've already figured it out, but LOAD should allow you to reload
> a .so file without having to restart the backend.
I didn't write that. It came from the person(s) who worked on earthdistance
before I touched it.