dspinellis / dspinellis/ai-cli-lib
Consider safer injection method
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Description
Rather than using ` __attribute__((constructor))`, which is called early in the program's initialization sequence (before the call to _main_), make the library be a _readline(3)_ replacement, and call `dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "readline")` after injecting the AI query behavior.
This will avoid the problem where with GNU awk _ai-cli-lib_ calls _malloc(3)_ before the awk code has called the required _pma_init(3)_, thus leading to a fatal _malloc(3)_ failure. This proposal was inspired by Terence Kelly's suggestion to avoid calling constructor-like functions before _main_.
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