[erlang-questions] code:load_binary - why there's module as argument

[John Doe]

Fair enough, but it would be nice to have a version without such limitation.

2018-04-16 12:05 GMT+03:00 Attila Rajmund Nohl <attila.r.nohl@REDACTED>:

> 2018-04-14 21:11 GMT+02:00 John Doe <donpedrothird@REDACTED>:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I wonder why code:load_binary() requires module name as one of the
>> arguments? The function would fail if this name is not equal to the real
>> module name from the binary, so it can deduce the correct name. Why it does
>> not allow loading just whatever module from a given binary and return
>> something like {ok, moduleName} as the result?
>>
>
> ​I guess to avoid overwriting an unexpected module. The input binary can
> contain any code, if it pretends to be the list module, but the caller
> thinks its the strings module, that could be a problem.​
>
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