Re: Link object files from VC++ and GCC?

From:
Victor Bazarov <v.bazarov@comcast.invalid>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Fri, 24 Jan 2014 11:44:40 -0500
Message-ID:
<lbu59o$qjg$1@dont-email.me>
On 1/24/2014 10:53 AM, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:

On Friday, January 24, 2014 9:31:40 AM UTC-5, Victor Bazarov wrote:

On 1/24/2014 8:49 AM, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:

[..] The actual implementation is about 100 lines, which are source
code lines from another computer language. The lines vary in length from
a few characters up to over 80, the average probably being 15. I had
decided against using the [85] so as to not waste memory.
[..]


Just curious, in what world a few hundred bytes is a waste of memory
worthy of consideration? Are you targetting an embedded system or a
legacy computer with 640K memory (last century technology)? Don't get
me wrong, please, it's just that I have often enough seen real
(significant) time wasted on finding a solution to save a few
microseconds or a few [hundred] bytes, that usually in the end cannot be
accounted for. I can understand when students do that in the course of
their studies, but I don't understand the need for it when creating a
product for others to consume.


I'm getting a lot of flack over this from many people on many lists. It's
like ... if I don't do it the way everybody else does then I'm the one who's
wrong. And because I look toward things which are important to me, and
because I choose to not waste memory where it doesn't need to be wasted,
while also simplifying the source code implementation of this task, that
it is somehow a bad choice.


No, not a bad choice, by any means IMO. Just an uncommon one.
Everybody has their priorities. Advice we *give* in part serves as
affirmation of our being right (or at least in the right area). If
something is recommended against our convictions, we have a choice -
either to change our convictions or ignore the advice. And we make
those choices constantly. Such is life.

FWIW, I had a working solution after getting the first access violation error
in the Visual Studio debugger and realizing why I got it. It took me a few
seconds to realize what was happening, even though it was unexpected. But,
the whole issue was one of those things I wanted to better understand. It
seemed (and still seems) a very silly imposition, that string literals
created in that way (as data pointed to in a read-write array) should always
be read-only unless they are explicitly cast through such a clunky syntax as
compound literals, a feature that not all C compilers even support.


I hope you don't have to learn the hard way why such a silly imposition
exists.

It was a mental exercise as much as anything else, a pursuit of a question,
to satiate curiosity. I wound up not using the solution, but just
discovering and testing it out. I learned many things in the process, not
the least of which was how to integrate GCC and Visual C++ together in
harmony. That alone was worth all the time I spent on it.


No argument here. Even if we don't gain anything, we always gain
experience.

I do not respond to top-posted replies, please don't ask


Just curious, in what world would you deny giving help to someone in need
simply because they top-posted? I had someone in 2011 or 2012 on the
Trisquel mailing list tell me that I was a top poster and that he
wasn't going to help me. I didn't even know what he was talking about
and had to ask what that phrase "top poster" meant. When I found out
I was floored that such a ridiculous barrier exists between the
help-seekers, and the knowledge-holders on a forum like this.


It's my help to give, I can and may deny it on any basis I choose.
Would you help somebody who speaks rudely to you in the street or would
you simply turn away and keep minding your own business? In such a case
rudeness is in the eye of the beholder, of course. Similarly, I
perceive top-posting as rudeness and choose not to involve myself in a
message thread like that.

Incidentally, a way to have the last word in an argument with me *here*
is to top-post.

It really taught me something ... a concept that is so amazingly important
to only a select few, those who desire to divide people into groups of
"them" (top posters) and "us" (the sensible lot). Seeing your tagline here
in this forum I was again floored. I almost wrote something to you about
it yesterday.

Just so you know ... there's a better way, Victor. It's called "love".


Yes. So, if you care for *my* reply, now that you know that it is
important to *me*, and you can't get it if you top-post, you *might*
want to consider not top-post. Get it?

Practice what you preach.

And try not to preach.

Tear down the barriers and come out and help people in love. And if you
want to learn the fulness of love ... He is the man, named Jesus, who is
the Christ, the only Savior of mankind.


<sigh>

V
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