On C/C++ undefined behaviours

[Walter Bright]

SK wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Walter Bright
> <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>> SK wrote:
>>> Do you mean to say:
>>> Instead of shipping the intermediate code, always ship source code.
>> Yes.
>> Why doesn't it make sense?
> 
> I love open source projects, but off the top of my head here are some
> reasons that's not a general substitute for TIMI for D:
> 1) What about closed source software?

Won't work anyway. Java bytecodes are trivially turned back into source.

> 2) From-source builds may be more complex or resource consuming than
> could be accommodated on the machine the customer used to launch, e.g.
> a hand-held device.

I've worked on a Java VM enough to know that won't be a problem.

> 3) The source may have sizable irrelevant content for a particular
> product instantiation, compile time conditionals, etc

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