Why do we still need/use .di 'header' files?

[Don Clugston]

BCS wrote:
> Don Clugston wrote:
>> What about templates, and conditional compilation?
> 
> if you are taking about closed source libs, that isn't an issue.

No, I wasn't. Just pointing out that source->obj is a lossy process, 
it's not fully reversible (unless you include most of the source in the 
obj file, which I think defeats most of the purpose).


  It
> would be nice to have a tool that would walk a .o/.a/.lib file (that 
> doesn't come with source) and generate a .di file that lets you link to it.
> 
> Just dreaming I guess.