[erlang-questions] Is on_load official?

[Eric B Merritt]

On Fri, 2011-12-30 at 13:45 +0100, Gleb Peregud wrote:
> Hello OTP team
> 
> Is on_load official and can be considered stable? In "Compilation and
> Code loading"[1] it is said (last sentence is the most interesting
> part):
> 
> =======================================================
> Warning
> 
> This section describes an experimental feature that
> was introduced in R13B03, and changed in a
> backwards-incompatible way in R13B04. *There may be more
> backward-incompatible changes in future releases*.
> =======================================================
> 
> but in "man erl_nif" it is said that "The NIF concept is officially
> supported from R14B"[2]
> 
> I think those two statements are a bit conflicting, since on_load is a
> standard method of loading NIF implementation libraries.

Not really. They where unstable in the R13 series but where considered
stable in the R14 series. That seems pretty strait forward.  

> 
> Comments?
> 
> Thanks!
> Gleb Peregud
> 
> 1: http://www.erlang.org/doc/reference_manual/code_loading.html
> 2: http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/erl_nif.html
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