Headers including headers and precompilation

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Fri Mar 31 12:38:48 PST 2006


On Friday 31 March 2006 1:13 pm, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > The dependency is simple: SUSv3 and maybe Linux headers.
>
> please stop promoting this approach.  it's just plain evil.  if it was
> such a good idea, then the C library would come with a single header
> file -- clibrary.h or something.  it doesn't.  that should tell you
> everything you need to know.

Yeah, that it was designed on a 16-bit machine in 1971.  Back then the entire 
system had 64k of ram, only the first 6 characters of each identifier were 
significant...

You are aware of the new build-at-once mode, right?

> rday

Rob
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