[Oberon] OP2 Vs Wirth's compiler.

[Andreas Pirklbauer]

The latest RISC5 compiler handles this similar to the original Oberon compiler on Ceres: one single key per module. Thus, when the interface of a module is changed, *all* clients are invalidated. In the specific implementation, the key is simply the sum of all bytes in the symbol file, i.e. really is a checksum.
See procedure ORS.Export at http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/ProjectOberon/Sources/ORB.Mod.txt .
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Josef Templ josef.templ at gmail.com 
Mon Jul 31 15:52:13 CEST 2017

   
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Besides the abstract syntax tree construction, one difference between OP2
and the original NW Oberon
compiler is the compatibility checking across module boundaries.
In OP2 there is a separate key (fingerprint) per exported object while in
the original compiler there is a single key
per module. Thus, whenever anything in a module is changed all clients are
invalidated. In OP2 only clients that
are using the changed object are invalidated. I don't know how this is
handled in the latest RISC5 compiler.

- JT
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