GSOC Linker project

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Fri, 04 May 2012 14:48:04 -0400, Andrej Mitrovic  
<andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5/4/12, Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> What I'm saying is, it's completely possible to store the API in binary
>> format *in* the object files, and use documentation generators to  
>> document
>
> Yes but then you need to *modify* existing tools in order to add a new
> feature that extracts information from object files. Either that, or
> you'd have to somehow extract the .di files back from the object
> files. How else can you see the interface in your text editor without
> the source files? :)

Current tools:  read .di files and extract API
new tools: read .dobj files and extract API.

I'm not really seeing the difficulty here...

-Steve