From -5663471614053733847 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,fbd36da46c3cc7a0 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public From: Gene Bushuyev Subject: Re: Discussion: type_info Date: 1999/12/23 Message-ID: <83ru98$ifi$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 564103600 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: 146.225.33.145 Approved: stephen.clamage@sun.com (comp.std.c++) References: <82gmer$gqm$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <384c8866.77375470@news.internetconnect.net> <82lv69$atk$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3855bd24.78125498@news.internetconnect.net> <83kjmg$cru$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <385E94F0.7157AEA4@wizard.net> X-UID: 0000000001 X-Status: $$$T X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT) X-Http-Proxy: 1.1 x37.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 146.225.33.145 Organization: Deja.com - Before you buy. X-Article-Creation-Date: Thu Dec 23 01:35:36 1999 GMT X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDgbush Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Originator: clamage@taumet In article <385E94F0.7157AEA4@wizard.net>, James Kuyper wrote: > Gene Bushuyev wrote: > ... > > Does the standard say anything about the existance of a linker? This > > division is the heritage of the past I hope we are seeing the end of it. > > Yes, it does. Many of the rules in the standard refer to translation > units; many others refer instead to entire programs. The standard > defines something called linkage which determines whether an object or > function can be visible in different translation units. The process of > linking translation units together into a complete program is described > in the standard. Ok, ok. You can call a thing that links compiled translation units a linker. Though it's hardly a linker that we used to. In order to support exported templates this linker still has to be a compiler. My point was just to note that compiler/linker distinction is dissapearing due to overlapping of their functions. ------------------------------------- Gene Bushuyev Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy. [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://reality.sgi.com/austern_mti/std-c++/faq.html ]