Method source pointer encoding (was: Squat progress 7 August2003: method IDs)

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Mon Aug 11 22:47:36 UTC 2003


> After discussing with Stef we saw that we did not understand at first 
> what you meant by moving target. I think you mean: 'probably somebody 
> else is going to touch this SourceFiles mess in order to have a 
> different source pointer incoding, so don't you guys mess 
> with this as well'. True?

Yes, that's the first half of it. The second is that it's likely that if
somebody plays with it, SourceFiles aren't going to survive anyway. It's
just an odd construct to begin with.

> If you do, my next obvious questions is: is somebody going 
> to do this now? If not (or only after a while), I do the changes I 
> proposed before (because it hurts every time I see them). If so, then 
> be my guest and change this ugly looking code as well. So, 
> what will it be?

How should I know? ;-) I was saying that I'm not going to mess with it but
surely I can't speak for anyone else. Craig is certainly doing some work in
this area, Avi expressed some interest but I can't tell you if (or what) is
going to happen soon or not.

Cheers,
  - Andreas



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