OT: on IDEs and code writing on steroids

[Rainer Deyke]

Yigal Chripun wrote:
> oh, I forgot my last point:
> for C link-time compatibility you need to be able to _read_ C object
> files and link them to your executable. you gain little from the ability
> to _write_ object files.

You can transitivity.  Two compilers for different languages that both
produce C object files can link to each other; two compiler that can
only read C object files cannot.

> if you want to do a reverse integration (use D code in your C project)
> you can and IMO should have created a library anyway instead of using
> object files and the compiler should allow this as a separate option via
> a flag, e.g. --make-so or whatever

If you can read and write compatible library files, you don't need to
read or write compatible object files, since library files can take the
place of object files.


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