Dylink example

[sampaioletti]

Here is an example with dynamic linking. I had to revise some of the relocatable branch, specifically after playing with it I was having better results when i went to absolute pointers.

The example is working, including passing strings and classes between relocatable modules, which really makes me excited about the viability of this.

Couple thoughts/notes

• only added support for static strings (missing arrays)
• toyed with adding a @dynlib decorator instead of using @external, didn't end up including it, but i think it may be how it should be done in the future, so we can implement the rest of the WA dynlink proposal and allow some additional compile time benefits
• currently 'leaking' but that may be my lack of understanding of rtrace
• I think a lot of the logic in the linker could be put into a AS module, to reduce the amount of work a linker has to do

[MaxGraey]

@dcodeIO Could you look at this?

[sampaioletti]

Gents, just fyi I won't be offended if it gets deleted, it was just an experiment but I am still using it in a production environment. More or less just wanted to share ideas, it's far from a finished design/implementation. Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/ghei36>

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[dcodeIO]

Closing this PR as part of 2020 vacuum as it states it's rather an example/experiment. But I'd be interested to learn more about the problems with the relocatable branch that you encountered, if you still remember.