Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 03/18/2010 05:11 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
The basic interface is:
Another thing needed for the interface is an associative array that maps
a string to a member of the archive. Object code libraries do this (the
string is the unresolved symbol's name, the member is of course the
corresponding object file).
Emphatically NO. Archives work with streams. You can build indexing on
top of them.
Such an interface won't work with .lib or .a archives. Both have an embedded
table of contents that is such an associative array - it's not a list of file
names, either, that's separate.
