Hello Andrej,
Yeah but using -of creates an executable in the directory I provide.
RDMD is supossed to be used with hiding the executable in a temp dir,
afaik.
So it's hashing at play, ok. Just wanted to know why.
Personally I'd like RDMD to hide the map and deps files as well, I
don't know why it only hides the executable and leaves the rest of the
trash behind. (okay it's not trash, but for quick compile-test cycles
I don't need the map and dependancy files).
Hinding the exe isn't the point, having files act like scripts is. Putting
the exes in some other common place allows better caching.
On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Nick Sabalausky <a...@a.a> wrote:
"Andrej Mitrovic" <n...@none.none> wrote in message
news:i6jc5g$1p2...@digitalmars.com...
Just a quick question, why does the map file have a long name like
so:
file_test-d-40DA973DB4C6AD075993AB5CD9866DDE.map ?
Because you're using rdmd and not using -of.
rdmd comes up with an executable filename by hashing the source
file's content (I'm not 100% sure why, something about
filename-uniqueness or caching and change-tracking, I'd imagine). And
dmd always uses the executable filename as the name of the map file
(which makes sense when you consider executables made from multiple
modules).
If you use -of, or if you just use dmd directly, then that hash value
doesn't get added.
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