AST files instead of DI interface files for faster compilation and easier distribution

[Adam Wilson]

On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 06:46:44 -0700, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:

> On 2012-06-12 14:09, foobar wrote:
>
>> This is a solved problem since the 80's (E.g. Pascal units). Per Adam's
>> post, the issue is tied to DMD's use of OMF/optlink which we all would
>> like to get rid of anyway. Once we're in proper COFF land, couldn't we
>> just store the required metadata (binary AST?) in special sections in
>> the object files themselves?
>
> Can't the same be done with OMF? I'm not saying I want to keep OMF.
>

OMF doesn't support Custom Sections and I think a custom section is the  
right way to handle this. I found the Borland OMF docs once a while back  
to verify this.

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