Re: OFFTOPIC: binary modules, bad idea!

Stephen Williams (steve@icarus.icarus.com)
Sat, 27 Dec 1997 21:46:32 -0800


Stephen Williams <steve@icarus.icarus.com> said:
> This way, in theory, one can detect type mismatches of most any form without
> paying any attention to the version numbers.

vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl said:
> Yes, but _only_ type mismatches... if the code works differently in
> any way...

Type and name mismatches.

It has been my experience in practical C++ projects that this is usually
quite sufficient for all but the most egregious errors.

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