GSOC Linker project

[Paulo Pinto]

Am 07.05.2012 15:27, schrieb Paulo Pinto:
> I like the idea, need to check what information I could provide.
>
> Wirth's books about Oberon also provide similar information.
>
> --
> Paulo
>
> "dennis luehring" wrote in message news:jo85t1$1n9b$1 at digitalmars.com...
>
> Am 07.05.2012 07:53, schrieb Paulo Pinto:
>> I really really think that mankind did a wrong turn when C won over
>> Pascal
>> in the 80's.
>>
>> And that Wirth somehow lost interest in the industry and did not try
>> to push
>> Modula-* or Oberon. There are some papers where he states this.
>>
>> Now we suffer from
>>
>> - daggling pointers
>> - buffer overflows
>> - pre-historic compiler toolchains
>>
>> With luck, Spec#, Go or more nicely D, will put us back on track.
>
> we should collect all the advantages of turbo pascal/delphi
> object-file-formats and make a small description post to show others in
> a clear understandable way how good/and longlife these technics are
>
> so the unit-system (turbo pascal: .pas -> .tpu, delphi: .pas->.dcu, free
> pascal: .pas -> ppu), the tpumover, ppumover for tpl or ppl libraries,
> the dll delphi solution .bpl
>
> and the advantage of controling the output of source inside the source
> program -> exe, unit -> object, library -> dynamic libray etc.
>
> any ideas how to start?

Description of the Free Pascal unit format

http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/prog/progap1.html#progse67.html

How the dump command works
http://www.freepascal.org/tools/ppudump.htm

The source code of the ppudump utility
http://svn.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/trunk/compiler/utils/ppudump.pp?view=markup

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Paulo