Re: Gwydion and HD

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• Subject: Re: Gwydion and HD
• From: Rob Myers <robm@tdv.com>
• Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 10:30:02 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: The Digital Village
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Functional Developer is a native compiler, d2c (Gwydion Dylan) uses C as an
intermediate representation. They therefore assemble their code and data very
differently , and binary compatibility is likely to be impossible because of this.
Name-mangling is an issue as well.
There would be nothing to stop components written in COM or CORBA in either system
working together. If d2c supported COM or CORBA, that is. :-)

Source compatibility is very good and getting better. It's certainly no worse (IMHO)
than converting C between VC++ and GNU or CodeWarrior compilers.

- Rob.

Roman Budzianowski wrote:

> I believe that the comment referred to runtime incompatibility. Doesn't look like
> this would change in the near future.
> Which only means, that code has to be exchanged in source code form between users
> of FD and Gwydon.

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Rob Myers  -  robm@tdv.com         The Digital Village  -  www.tdv.com
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"Arthur bought the Apple anyway."-So Long & Thanks For All The Fish.

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