There is not a one to one correspondence between source code and object
code, ie you change compilers, or even compiler options within the same
compiler, and you get different object code.
Not to mention compiling for different processors.
But I think Chris Bayley is looking in the right place for the reasons
for source only distribution.
stringer wrote:
I like to argue it to the computer illiterate thus:
Source code is human readable (supposedly!!)
Machine code is what the computer chip understands (whether PC or Mac)
A compiler simply translates from one to the other.
So in reality, its corollary is translating English into another
language (whether French or German or whatever)
Source code and machine code are really the same thing, just as the
Count of Monte Christo is the same thing written in English as in French!
Q.E.D.????
At 13:26 16/03/07 +1300, you wrote:
