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modules: Improve README bullets.

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Jason Volk 2020-01-11 18:18:07 -08:00
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This directory contains dynamically loadable functionality to libircd.
#### Layout
#### Approach
Unlike most of the module systems found in traditional C free software
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toolchains. The result is significantly simpler and more convenient for
developers to work with.
- Modules are loaded with `RTLD_GLOBAL` on both posix and windows platforms.
##### GLOBAL SYMBOLS
Modules are loaded with `RTLD_GLOBAL` on both posix and windows platforms.
Use of C++ namespaces, visibility attributes, `STB_GNU_UNIQUE`, etc are
adequate to make this modernization.
- All project code is built to silently weaken undefined symbols. This means
##### WEAK UNDEFINED SYMBOLS
All project code is built to silently weaken undefined symbols. This means
a complicated interface declared in a header, like a class interface with
public and private and static members -- typical in C++ -- can be included
public and private and static members (typical in C++) can be included
by itself into any part of the project without knowing where the definitions
of that interface are until they are *first used* at runtime. If said
definitions are not available because they are in an unloaded module, a C++
exception is thrown directly from the callsite.
of that interface are until they are *first used* at runtime.
If definitions are not available because they are in an unloaded module: a C++
exception is thrown directly from the callsite. We have built this action
is built into the lookup mechanism of the runtime dynamic linker; none of
this requires knowledge or effort from developers to use.
#### Layout
(TODO)
## Getting started