From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,e8164763d1f73294 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!trndny09.POSTED!0e8a908a!not-for-mail From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: inline expansion References: <1166649100.107626.64210@48g2000cwx.googlegroups.com> <1166652217.037740.272730@t46g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <458A4E08.1010305@users.sourceforge.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 13:53:47 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.19.111.106 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: trndny09 1167054827 70.19.111.106 (Mon, 25 Dec 2006 08:53:47 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 08:53:47 EST Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8008 Date: 2006-12-25T13:53:47+00:00 List-Id: Markus E Leypold wrote: > By not using the usual object files (which are mostly a memory image > plus relocation info), instead storing a more highlevel description of > the compiled code and doing inlining during linking? That's not unlike how the C++ compiler which implements "export" for templates does it. But of course, doing this means that the implementors have to invent yet another intermediate format and a set of tools to deal with it. Since the source code is a perfectly good representation of what needs to be inlined, there's no real need to do all that work.