• Mike Parker (6/6) Feb 22 2017 Walter shares a little bit of compiler knowledge, explaining how
• Arun Chandrasekaran (5/7) Feb 22 2017 Thanks for a wonder article.
• =?UTF-8?Q?Ali_=c3=87ehreli?= (7/13) Feb 22 2017 Thanks! Two improvements:
• =?UTF-8?Q?Ali_=c3=87ehreli?= (3/6) Feb 22 2017 Ooh! I take it back. They are correct in the original source...
• Walter Bright (1/1) Feb 22 2017 Thanks, Mike!
• Jacob Carlborg (4/10) Feb 24 2017 It doesn't mention that MS-COFF is available for 32bit as well.
• Kagamin (2/2) Mar 01 2017 In case strings hash to the same value, the linkers (ld and ms)

Mike Parker <aldacron gmail.com> writes:

Walter shares a little bit of compiler knowledge, explaining how 
DMD stuffs string literals into object files.

Blog post:
http://dlang.org/blog/2017/02/22/snowflake-strings/

Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/5viixe/snowflake_strings_walter_bright_on_how_the_dmd_d/

Arun Chandrasekaran <aruncxy gmail.com> writes:

On Wednesday, 22 February 2017 at 13:08:13 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
 Blog post:
 http://dlang.org/blog/2017/02/22/snowflake-strings/

Thanks for a wonder article.

PS: The blog UI may need to be corrected for browsing from 
mobiles[1].

[1] http://imgur.com/a/7IPkm

=?UTF-8?Q?Ali_=c3=87ehreli?= <acehreli yahoo.com> writes:

On 02/22/2017 05:08 AM, Mike Parker wrote:
 Walter shares a little bit of compiler knowledge, explaining how DMD
 stuffs string literals into object files.

 Blog post:
 http://dlang.org/blog/2017/02/22/snowflake-strings/

 Reddit:
 https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/5viixe/snowflake_strings_walter_bright_on_how_the_dmd_d/

Thanks! Two improvements:

- People outside of the D (and C++) community may not know who "Andrei" is.

- Assuming they are line numbers, the 2 and 3 below should be 3 and 4:

     (i < 3 || _d_assertp(TMP, 2))
     (j & 1 || _d_assertp(TMP, 3))

Ali

=?UTF-8?Q?Ali_=c3=87ehreli?= <acehreli yahoo.com> writes:

On 02/22/2017 02:26 PM, Ali Çehreli wrote:

 - Assuming they are line numbers, the 2 and 3 below should be 3 and 4:

     (i < 3 || _d_assertp(TMP, 2))
     (j & 1 || _d_assertp(TMP, 3))

Ooh! I take it back. They are correct in the original source...

Ali

Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:

Thanks, Mike!

Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:

On 2017-02-22 14:08, Mike Parker wrote:
 Walter shares a little bit of compiler knowledge, explaining how DMD
 stuffs string literals into object files.

 Blog post:
 http://dlang.org/blog/2017/02/22/snowflake-strings/

 Reddit:
 https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/5viixe/snowflake_strings_walter_bright_on_how_the_dmd_d/

It doesn't mention that MS-COFF is available for 32bit as well.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

Kagamin <spam here.lot> writes:

In case strings hash to the same value, the linkers (ld and ms) 
have an option to detect discrepancy in content.