Re: Module boundaries with classes and exceptions.

From:
"James Kanze" <james.kanze@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
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Date:
31 Dec 2006 04:35:57 -0500
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perrog@gmail.com wrote:

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James Kanze skrev:

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.


I don't think this is to far away. GNU's C/C++ pre-compiler and gcc
must handle incompatible compile options in future release, because
there is a strong need for it.


Very. But there's been a strong need for it for quite some time
now; I first encountered the problem over 15 years ago.
Supposing, of course, that "incompatible compile options"
includes things like -DsomethingOrOther. And of course,
ideally, we would prefer if it didn't complain if one module was
compiled with -DNDEBUG, and the others not---although this might
formally result in undefined behavior (due to an inline function
using assert()), it should work in practice. (But such a
distinction may be asking too much.)

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