Re: Snowflake Strings

2017-03-01 Thread Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-announce 
In case strings hash to the same value, the linkers (ld and ms) 
have an option to detect discrepancy in content.

Re: Snowflake Strings

2017-02-24 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce 

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

Re: Snowflake Strings

2017-02-22 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce 

Thanks, Mike!

Re: Snowflake Strings

2017-02-22 Thread Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-announce 

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

Re: Snowflake Strings

2017-02-22 Thread Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-announce 

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

Re: Snowflake Strings

2017-02-22 Thread Arun Chandrasekaran via Digitalmars-d-announce 

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

Snowflake Strings

2017-02-22 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce 
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/