[Aldor-l] Compiling setup

[Stephen Watt]

Laurentiu, I think there is more to this than meets the eye.

The Aldor system developers are not the only ones to write libraries -- 
the compiler should have correct behaviour for any legitimate Aldor code
and not break depending on the underlying C compiler.

-- Stephen


On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 06:46:38PM -0400, ldragan at aldor.org wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 10:19:42AM -0400, Stephen Watt wrote:
> > The Aldor compiler does indeed need to be fixed to not rely on
> > implementation dependencies of the C compiler in this respect.
> 
> I think this issue should be fixed in the library.  The Aldor compiler
> only deals with literals, which are constant like in C.  The library
> implementing String should know that string literals are constant
> and either make them constant or copy them when a new String is
> initialized.
> 
> > 
> > We will look into this without waiting until the open source release.
> 
> The solution proposed by Christian is very reasonable and
> should work with the current compiler.
> 
> --
> Laurentiu