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Robert Millan wrote:
> Sounds good.  But do we have support for "weak" symbol dependencies a la
> dlym() ?

I tried it once while traveling and you can dynamically check for
function symbols and then start using them if they are loaded. Thou... I
do not know how reference counting is then affected. So you probably
should either increment counters if used dyniamically or only use it
while inside function call.