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Remove long deprecated Apple APIs from DLL.cpp #153

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@Diatrus Diatrus commented Jun 29, 2021

NSLink friends have been deprecated since Mac OS X 10.5.
The excerpt from <mach-o/dyld.h>:

/*

  • The following dyld API's are deprecated as of Mac OS X 10.5. They are either
  • no longer necessary or are superceeded by dlopen and friends in <dlfcn.h>.
  • dlopen/dlsym/dlclose have been available since Mac OS X 10.3 and work with
  • dylibs and bundles.
  • NSAddImage -> dlopen
  • NSLookupSymbolInImage -> dlsym
  • NSCreateObjectFileImageFromFile -> dlopen
  • NSDestroyObjectFileImage -> dlclose
  • NSLinkModule -> not needed when dlopen used
  • NSUnLinkModule -> not needed when dlclose used
  • NSLookupSymbolInModule -> dlsym
  • _dyld_image_containing_address -> dladdr
  • NSLinkEditError -> dlerror

*/

NSLink friends have been deprecated since Mac OS X 10.5.
The excerpt from <mach-o/dyld.h>:

/*
 * The following dyld API's are deprecated as of Mac OS X 10.5.  They are either
 * no longer necessary or are superceeded by dlopen and friends in <dlfcn.h>.
 * dlopen/dlsym/dlclose have been available since Mac OS X 10.3 and work with
 * dylibs and bundles.
 *
 *    NSAddImage                           -> dlopen
 *    NSLookupSymbolInImage                -> dlsym
 *    NSCreateObjectFileImageFromFile      -> dlopen
 *    NSDestroyObjectFileImage             -> dlclose
 *    NSLinkModule                         -> not needed when dlopen used
 *    NSUnLinkModule                       -> not needed when dlclose used
 *    NSLookupSymbolInModule               -> dlsym
 *    _dyld_image_containing_address       -> dladdr
 *    NSLinkEditError                      -> dlerror
 *
 */
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