Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!lins From: lins@Apple.COM (Chuck Lins) Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2 Subject: Re: Modula-2 "object" format for def'n module? Keywords: Modula-2 definition Message-ID: <46194@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 1 Nov 90 03:52:02 GMT References: <43710@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 26 In article <43710@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> v056ped5@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu writes: >In article , josef@nixdorf.de (Moellers) writes... >>Hi, >>I am currently busy to write my own Modula-2 compiler. >>Although progress is very slow, I would like to know if someone could >>give me any hints on the format of compiled "DEFINITION MODULE"s. >>| Josef Moellers | c/o Siemens Nixdorf Informatonssysteme AG | > > >I may be wrong, but I always thought of DEFINITION MODULE's as a text >interface to compiled code. If I am wrong would someone drop me a line Symbol files are usually a much more compact format than straight source text. There is an article in IEE Software (Sept or Nov 87/88) by Jurg Gutknecht describing the mechanism. You'll have to add the fine details to get it working, but the article provides enough information to get the main logic down. -- Chuck Lins | "Is this the kind of work you'd like to do?" Apple Computer, Inc. | -- Front 242 20525 Mariani Avenue | Internet: lins@apple.com Mail Stop 37-BD | AppleLink: LINS@applelink.apple.com Cupertino, CA 95014 | "Self-proclaimed Object Oberon Evangelist" The intersection of Apple's ideas and my ideas yields the empty set.