[boost] Re: Invariants Library

From: Thorsten Ottosen (nesotto_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-01-03 23:34:57

"Dan W." <danw_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:bt80rc$ge8$1_at_sea.gmane.org...
> Thorsten Ottosen wrote:
> > I trust you. If you mess up once, all your customers will disappear.
> >>And if, technically, I might have just given you a document extracted
> >>from my cpp file that contains them, is your compiler able to read this
> >>document to verify contract correctness?
> > the compiler should be able to read the ojbect files.
>
> No, the contracts cannot be in the object file. How would your linker be
> able to remove them when building your final app?

A assumed that a linker that can remove unused code and that can optimize
could somehow also
keep track of otherr types of code.

But you're right, I don't know for sure.

br

Thorsten