Abstract: Dynamic link libraries (DLL) are loaded and linked so that exported symbols of each DLL can be accessed by the other DLLs. A method includes explicitly loading a first DLL and instructing the first DLL to explicitly load a second DLL to cause exported symbols of the second DLL to be accessible to the first DLL. The second DLL has code to implement an initialization routine to load another DLL. The first DLL calls the initialization routine in the second DLL to load the first DLL to cause exported symbols of the first DLL to be accessible to the second DLL.

Abstract: A data processing system containing a vector processor and a scalar processor executes scalar and vector instructions which both comprise an operation portion and an operand pointer portion. In the vector instructions, however, the operand pointer portion contains an operand specifier which identifies a vector control word. Each vector control word contains, for the corresponding vector instruction, flags and vector operand pointers. The vector operand pointers specify vector registers in the vector processor. The flags contain additional information for the execution of the vector instructions.