Foreign resources access the SICStus C API in the same way as an embedding application, that is, through a dispatch vector. As for applications, the default and backward compatible mode is to only support a single SICStus run-time. An alternative mode makes it possible for a foreign resource to be shared between several SICStus run-times in the same process.
Unless otherwise noted, this section documents the behavior when using dynamically linked foreign resources. That is, shared objects (e.g.: .so-files) under UNIX, dynamic libraries (DLLs) under Windows.