Re: A lesson for compiler warning writers

preston@dawn.cs.rice.edu (Preston Briggs)
Sun, 21 Jun 1992 00:51:22 GMT

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From: preston@dawn.cs.rice.edu (Preston Briggs)
Keywords: C, linker
Organization: Rice University, Houston
References: <19920609091040SEB1525@MVS.draper.com> 92-06-086
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1992 00:51:22 GMT

xjam@cork.CS.Berkeley.EDU (The Crossjammer) writes:


>While C has a somewhat self-defeating notion of
>separate compilation it is quite easy to enforce such consistency if you
>have a notion of an interface database ...


Most modern languages do just this (e.g., Mesa, Modula 2, Modula 3,
Oberon, Ada, ML). The big holdouts are C and Fortran.


Preston Briggs
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