On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 11:04:02PM +0200, Jonas Maebe wrote:
>
> On 6 apr 2006, at 22:59, Tom Verhoeff wrote:
>
> >This raises the concern that precompiled units become obsolete when
> >the user of such a unit upgrades the compiler. The compiler
> >apparently
> >requires that the System unit of the precompiled unit and of the using
> >program are IDENTICAL (which is enforced by the somewhat weaker check
> >of comparing their checksums; but in practice that will have the same
> >effect).
>
> The checksum is only calculated on the interface (i.e. all exported
> symbols), it's not a generic binary checksum of the entire unit.
OK. I didn't know that, and haven't found it in the documentation
(or have I missed it?). I have updated the wiki page accordingly.
Tom
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