<div dir="ltr">would this imply that erlang runtime is choosing to call bif if present instead of erlang implemented function ??? is this general case or these<div>"alternative" implementations should be registered somehow somewhere??</div><div><br></div><div>and thak you for the search tip it worked </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 2:38 PM, Dmytro Lytovchenko <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dmytro.lytovchenko@gmail.com" target="_blank">dmytro.lytovchenko@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">Standard library rarely uses dynamic loaded SO/DLL modules (so called NIFs), rather they use BIF functions, code for them is included straight into Erlang/OTP C source and follows different rules than NIF. Have a search through source C files for binary_<function name>_<arity>, with high chance you will find the C source by this name.</span><br></div></span><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">2017-01-21 13:27 GMT+01:00 Karlo Kuna <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kuna.prime@gmail.com" target="_blank">kuna.prime@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">I was wandering how is standard module "binary" implemented <div>i am looking at source and i see that most functions are nifs (this makes sense), </div><div>but there is no "-on_load" directive and i can't find c implementation. Please can someone explain to me how is this module using nifs without -on_load directive and also can tell me where is c implementation??</div><div><br></div></div>
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