Hey,

Since the hexloader seems to be getting ever more complicated, I'd like to propose a (hopefully) simple alternate solution that covers a lot of what the hex loader does. This has been proposed before, I am just bringing it up again:

- enable the use of a generic setup() function, like Max/MSP, instead of specifically named setup functions, like moses_setup().

This would mean that nothing special would need to be done to create objectclasses with characters that are valid for the file systems in question. It shouldn't be hard to implement, here's what the BSD man page for dlsym has to say about it:

If dlsym() is called with a handle, returned by dlopen() then only that image and any libraries it depends on are searched for symbol.

Then it seems it is just a matter of using dlopen() with the RTLD_LOCAL mode and that library's setup() won't be exported to the global space.

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