Re: [Plplot-devel] Re: Plplot-devel digest, Vol 1 #1275 - 13 msgs

[Arjen M. <arj...@wl...>]

Geoffrey Furnish wrote:

>I think that is the usual way, just as it is for C/C++ pch repos.  And I
>don't think that it obscures the API details.  In C/C++, you get the
>human-comprehensible API details from the .h files, not from the .pch files.
>Similarly, in Fortran, you look to the module definition files, not the
>"compiled" module files, for API info.
>  
>
The module files may actually also contain information for inlining small
routines and functions and information about other kinds of optimisation.
But that is of course entirely up to the compiler builders and they may have
chosen a binary format to obfuscate their trade secrets.

The Fortran standard actually leaves the contents of these files (possibly
even their existence) to the discretion of the compiler - so that everyone
can take as much advantage as they want or need.

> > [...]
> > Geoffrey, Arjen and Jim, let me know if you have any strong objections to
> > that move.
>
>I think that makes good sense.
>  
>
I agree

Regards,

Arjen