Trf_LoadLibrary(3)

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💖 Trf_LoadLibrary 💖 — from the Library Functions Manual, section 3

okay so bestie, we're doing Trf_LoadLibrary(3) today and I need you to know up front: this one is a short page. like, criminally short. but we're gonna give it main character energy anyway 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

Trf_LoadLibrary — general purpose library loader functionality. that's it, that's the whole vibe. it loads libraries. it's general purpose about it. iconic behavior honestly 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

first things first, you gotta pull in the header or nothing works, periodt:

#include <transform.h>

and here's the function, look at her:

int Trf_LoadLibrary
(
     Tcl_Interp *interp,
     const char *libName,
     void **handlePtr,
     char **symbols,
     int num
);

six lines of pure possibility and, as you're about to find out, absolutely zero documentation. slay 💅

🎀 PARAMETERS 🎀

okay so this is the part where I have to tell you something and you're not gonna like it. every single one of these says the same thing. and that thing is: Not Documented. no cap. not me reading the whole parameter list and getting nothing 😭

  • Tcl_Interp *interp — Not Documented.
  • const char *libName — Not Documented.
  • void **handlePtr — Not Documented.
  • char **symbols — Not Documented.
  • int num — Not Documented.

yeah. that's the whole section. five parameters, five shrugs. we are ✨guessing✨ and I refuse to invent lore that isn't in the source, so what you see is what you get, fr fr 🦋

lowkey a tragedy but highkey accurate — don't go assuming what any of these do, because the page literally does not say.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

here's the entire description, bestie, and I'm not even paraphrasing much because there's barely anything to paraphrase:

used by → TrfLoadZlib, → TrfLoadLibdes.

that's the tea ☕ so this thing isn't really the one you call directly — it's the little helper the other loaders lean on. it's giving supporting cast, but honestly? supporting cast is where the plot happens. iykyk 💜

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the whole friend group, in the exact order they showed up:

and that's the whole page!! short, sweet, and fully undocumented on the parameter front, which is not my fault and I will not be taking questions 💀

cute little sign-off for the girlies who read to the bottom: this one came from the c2man transform.h pipeline, dated 27 August 2002 — so yes, she's vintage, she's retro, she's a Y2K queen 🌈💖

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