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At 16:07 16/03/07 +1300, you wrote:
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.
Different translators will sometimes give different versions in the real
world, too. There are other considerations, such as using abbreviations on
the assumption the reader understands them. Or if the chapters are
increased/decreased - does that change the essential nature of the work?
eg The Lord of the Rings is ONE book, not three. It was the publisher who
split it up.
Not to mention compiling for different processors.
I think I covered this already.
But I think Chris Bayley is looking in the right place for the reasons for
source only distribution.
No further comment
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:
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