Re: Module boundaries with classes and exceptions.
Francis Glassborow wrote:
In article <1166627560.588951.219260@f1g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, James
Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com> writes
Companies supplying already compiled libraries should generally
forsee providing them in several different versions, compiled
with different options. You then choose the version which
corresponds to the options you are using.
One of the things that I wish compiler implementors would do is to store
the compile time options/switches in the generated object code so that
linkers have access to the meta-data to allow them to detect attempts to
link object code with different compile time settings.
And how. That and an MD5 hash of the tokens for each class,
definition, inline function and template would sure save a lot
of debugging work.
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