Compilation strategy

[Walter Bright]

On 12/17/2012 2:08 PM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> I really loved the way Turbo Pascal units were made. I wish D go the same
> route.  Object files would then be looked at as minimal and stupid variation of
> module where symbols are identified by mangling (not plain meta data as (would
> be) in module) and no source for templates is emitted.
> +1

I'll bite. How is this superior to D's system? I have never used TP.


> *Semantic info on interdependency of symbols in a source file is destroyed right
> before the linker and thus each .obj file is included as a whole or not at all.
> Thus all C run-times I've seen _sidestep_ this by writing each function in its
> own file(!). Even this alone should have been a clear indication.

This is done using COMDATs in C++ and D today.