Re: problem with pointer and module

From: Jugoslav Dujic (jdujicREMOVE_at_uns.ns.ac.yu)
Date: 10/15/03 

Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:23:11 +0200

Richard Maine wrote:
|
| Compilation of a module generally produces 2 files. One file usually
| has a .mod prefix and is used in subsequent compilation steps. You
| might loosely think of it as an automatically generated .h file and
| the USE statement as including it. This isn't exactly right, as the
| .mod file won't be in source code form like a .h file would be, but it
| still isn't a bad analogy.

Many C/C++ compilers support the feature of "precompiled headers"
(.pch in MSVC++ incarnation), which speeds up the compilation,
especially with large .h files. I think this is a pretty good
analogy. 

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