[Oberon] Modula2 vs Oberon IMPORT

Duke Normandin dukeofperl at ml1.net
Mon Jan 10 00:34:14 CET 2011


On Sun, 9 Jan 2011, Christian Demmer wrote:

> Duke Normandin wrote:
> >"one incarnation of every procedure used" => OK makes sense
> >"nothing more" => meaning no other un-used procedures from the
> >IMPORTed modules, or meaning no 2nd or 3rd etc copy of used procedures?
>
> I meant no unused procedures and no duplicate procedures if you are
> using a static linker for a native executable file like you have on
> Linux.

OK ..

> I don't know the details for OBC. I remember it's an bytecode
> interpreter but I don't know if there is a static linker or if the
> modules are loadtime linked by the runtime  system.

I don't know either. Not too curious to dig into it any further either
;) As Jan V. on this list indicated, the question I raised appears to
be  pretty much a non-issue. Thanks for your comments.
-- 
Duke



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