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Pikalek
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I've been using SDL2 for development almost since it came out. Long story short, I stumbled upon the SDL dynamic apiAPI explanation. I've looked in SDL_Dynapi.cSDL_Dynapi.c to understand how it works. I get that the jump table can be updated with function pointers to newer versions of the functions, but what I don't get is how one would actually goes about doing that dynamically.

Did iI miss a function declaration, is there some specific function to call outside the application,? I have no idea how an updated dynapidynapi loads itself.

I've been using SDL2 for development almost since it came out. Long story short, I stumbled upon the SDL dynamic api explanation. I've looked in SDL_Dynapi.c to understand how it works. I get that the jump table can be updated with function pointers to newer versions of the functions, but what I don't get is how one would actually goes about doing that dynamically.

Did i miss a function declaration, is there some specific function to call outside the application, I have no idea how an updated dynapi loads itself.

I've been using SDL2 for development almost since it came out. Long story short, I stumbled upon the SDL dynamic API explanation. I've looked in SDL_Dynapi.c to understand how it works. I get that the jump table can be updated with function pointers to newer versions of the functions, but what I don't get is how one would actually goes about doing that dynamically.

Did I miss a function declaration, is there some specific function to call outside the application? I have no idea how an updated dynapi loads itself.

Updated dead link (thanks Google...)
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edit approved May 13, 2021 at 13:50
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edit approved May 13, 2021 at 13:50
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I've been using SDL2 for development almost since it came out. Long story short, I stumbled upon the SDL dynamic apiSDL dynamic api explanation. I've looked in SDL_Dynapi.c to understand how it works. I get that the jump table can be updated with function pointers to newer versions of the functions, but what I don't get is how one would actually goes about doing that dynamically.

Did i miss a function declaration, is there some specific function to call outside the application, I have no idea how an updated dynapi loads itself.

I've been using SDL2 for development almost since it came out. Long story short, I stumbled upon the SDL dynamic api explanation. I've looked in SDL_Dynapi.c to understand how it works. I get that the jump table can be updated with function pointers to newer versions of the functions, but what I don't get is how one would actually goes about doing that dynamically.

Did i miss a function declaration, is there some specific function to call outside the application, I have no idea how an updated dynapi loads itself.

I've been using SDL2 for development almost since it came out. Long story short, I stumbled upon the SDL dynamic api explanation. I've looked in SDL_Dynapi.c to understand how it works. I get that the jump table can be updated with function pointers to newer versions of the functions, but what I don't get is how one would actually goes about doing that dynamically.

Did i miss a function declaration, is there some specific function to call outside the application, I have no idea how an updated dynapi loads itself.

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How does the SDL dynamic API inject itself in statically linked code

I've been using SDL2 for development almost since it came out. Long story short, I stumbled upon the SDL dynamic api explanation. I've looked in SDL_Dynapi.c to understand how it works. I get that the jump table can be updated with function pointers to newer versions of the functions, but what I don't get is how one would actually goes about doing that dynamically.

Did i miss a function declaration, is there some specific function to call outside the application, I have no idea how an updated dynapi loads itself.