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From: William Perry <wmperry@aventail.com>
To: sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor])
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Subject: Base64 & what happened to dynamic loading?
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Michael Sperber writes:
>[bug in lib-src/mmencode.c]
>This seems to be needed at least on AIX.  index is a macro out here.

  When exactly is mmencode used?  It would be great to see it just merged
into the base C code and have a standard base64 package.  For
small-to-medium sized files, the base64.el that is distributed with
Emacs-W3 is sufficient, but for large files, you really need a C-level
implementation.

  What ever happened to the mega-patches that provided dynamic loading of
shared libraries for 20.0?  This seems like a perfect use for it.

-Bill P.

