Re: Service program signature violations?

["M. Lazarus" <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>]

Jon,

At 11/27/01 11:50 PM, you wrote:
>Best I can think of is that there is no guarantee that the compiler
>will output the procedures in sequence and/or the optimizer may move
>procedures around in the module for greater efficiency.  For example I would
>assume that a procedure that is not exported would probably be relocated
>within the module for proximity with its callers.

  That's fine on the object level.  We expect objects to be automatically
optimized or manually optimizable (sp?).


>Having the proc names exported in alpha sequence at least is predictable
>(if annoying).

  It's annoying at BEST, just plain wrong at worst (and probably the
majority of the cases!)  I also can't see how someone would see this as a
feature and what code it would break.


>I'll copy a friend in Rochester on this and see if there is another reason
>behind this.

  Thanks - keep us posted.

  -mark