[erlang-questions] wrapperless NIF module?

[Sverker Eriksson]

On 04/22/2015 03:52 PM, Daniel Goertzen wrote:
> I was thinking about the little Erlang wrapper that you need around a 
> NIF module and then it hit me:  Could the Erlang wrapper be thrown out 
> and the NIF module plopped into ebin/ and directly loaded like a .beam 
> file?  I'm curious if this has been attempted or is even possible.
>
>

Have not been attempted to my knowledge.
Would be possible from a VM perspective by creating the "wrapper module" 
dynamically in memory.

Problem areas that I can think of are
* missing module_info
* missing type info (dialyzer)
* all the code that expect files to be named *.beam


/Sverker, Erlang/OTP

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