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Re: [RFC] Suggested replacement for specs and switch handling


On Jul  2, 2001, Neil Booth <neil@daikokuya.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> I don't have any good ideas for this, apart from possibly having a way
> to read in an updated hash table at run time.

How about multiple hash-tables, one per front-end?  You could
pre-compile each one separately, and map them all in at run-time.  We
could also provide a tool (optionally installed?) to de-compile such a
hash-table, and to re-compile it.

> Unless the driver always looked in a predefined place for such a
> file, it would probably need to be given on the command line, which
> would be awkward too.

The driver currently looks for the specs file in a predefined place,
that can be overridden in the command line.  I'd rather retain this
ability, even if we go with pre-compiled functional equivalents of
specs files.

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