On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Rolf Schumacher wrote:
is it possible to code software in a style so that no bit of the object code changes even if referenced objects change?
Hmm. I'm not entirely clear as to what you mean but here is some ideas that may or may not be relevant.... Compile to position independent code. Reference no globals, const strings or statics. Somehow I suspect this is a case of, if we really knew which (larger) problem you were trying solve instead of what you are trying to do, their would be a much much easier way... John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : john.carter@xxxxxxxxxx New Zealand Carter's Clarification of Murphy's Law. "Things only ever go right so that they may go more spectacularly wrong later."
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