Re: A NAM Veteran muses ...

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Subject: Re: A NAM Veteran muses ...
From: brucehoult@pobox.com (Bruce Hoult)
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 18:30:02 -0500 (EST)
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<Pine.GSO.3.96.1000224180958.26807J-100000@tardis.tardis.ed.ac.uk>, Hugh
Greene <q@tardis.ed.ac.uk> wrote:

> This is another reason why my point 2 about "at compile time" is tricky. 
> You could defer the check until the start of runtime

I think this is a possibility which is seldom used, but potentially very
valuable.  It's really a kind of a proxy for being able to do checks at
link time, except that you could also possibly detect DLL problems.

-- Bruce

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A NAM Veteran muses ...

From: Hugh Greene <q@tardis.ed.ac.uk>

Re: A NAM Veteran muses ...

From: Hugh Greene <q@tardis.ed.ac.uk>