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[Walter Bright]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 03/18/2010 05:11 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> The basic interface is:
>>
>> Another thing needed for the interface is an associative array that maps
>> a string to a member of the archive. Object code libraries do this (the
>> string is the unresolved symbol's name, the member is of course the
>> corresponding object file).
> 
> Emphatically NO. Archives work with streams. You can build indexing on 
> top of them.

Such an interface won't work with .lib or .a archives. Both have an embedded 
table of contents that is such an associative array - it's not a list of file 
names, either, that's separate.