Yigal Chripun wrote: > Rainer Deyke wrote: >> ... >> >> If you can read and write compatible library files, you don't need to >> read or write compatible object files, since library files can take the >> place of object files. > > that's even better. just allow 2-way usage of C libs and that's it. no > need to support the C object file formats directly.
Ummm... IIRC, an .a file is just an archive of .o files. A .lib file in Windows is something similar. If you want to support C libraries, you need to support the object file format as well. -- Daniel