[M3devel] response file changes?

[Olaf Wagner]

Quoting Jay <jayk123 at hotmail.com>:

> Nobody should depend on this strange heuristic-based behavior..
> I know that doesn't make it so, but it does possibly legitimize changing it.

OK, probably you're right there.

>   > as long as their names are unique.
>
> Right, like how I'm doing now _m3responsefile0.txt, _m3responsefile1.txt.
> I wrap around from 9 to 0 because Quake can't do math.
> In practise there's only ever one or two response files per   
> directory, one to make in import .lib and one make a .dll, or just   
> one to link an .exe.

We could just add a function to create a unique tmpfile name in
a given directory to quake.
There's the tempfiles package in m3-libs.

Olaf

> C compilation doesn't use response files, but it could if the   
> parameters got long and esp. if there were lots of C files in one   
> directory and batch compile them instead of one at a time.. That's a  
>  nice optimization in C-based systems, not a big deal in Modula-3   
> with so few .c files.
>
> Maybe soon I'll rip out my code, and then fix the reliable deletion,  
>  and THEN move the directory...
>
>  - Jay
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