From: Khayu Nyein Aye <khayu AT SPAMinch DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Question: RHIDE - CTRL+F9?
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 20:56:49 -0400
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Peter Gerwinski wrote:
> 
> > > P.S. Is DJ thinking about putting this "compile to memory" feature into
> > > future versions???
> > One question: What would be the benefit of this?
> The (only?) application for this is that, while you are learning a
> programming language, you don't fill up your disk/directory with
> lots of `.exe' files.  While this might seem comfortable, it hides
> the stage of compilation and causes a lot of questions to the
> Pascal NewsGroups: "How do I produce `.exe' files with Turbo Pascal?"
> 
> (BTW, Turbo Pascal compiles short programs indeed so fast that you
> get the impression that they really run without compilation and
> linking when doing it in memory.)
> 
> A similar feature for GNU compilers would be so much work for a
> questionable benefit that it's not realistic.  (At least *I* won't
> do it for GNU Pascal, but since everyone can have the source of
> the compiler, perhaps somebody who finds it important enough will
> do? ;-)
> 
> However, if you like the "run this source, but don't produce an
> `.exe'" effect, you can ask Robert to implement an option into
> RHIDE that the `.exe' file is automatically erased whenever the
> target changes?  Personally I would not consider it this important,
> but perhaps others do?  (But if it's much work, we *must* not take
> Robert's time away from more important things!)
> 
Yes, this is exactly what I had in mind when I came up and asked for
CTRL+F9 as in Turbo Pascal. I don't know how to program and am just
starting to learn, and the idea of the DJGPP compiler producing a load
of .exe's in the BIN directory (or anywhere really) for every hello.c
and all other beginner programs was not really compelling to me. But I
guess, once and if I figure out how to direct compiled .exe's into a
separate directory at time of compilation, I won't mind that much
anymore ;-)
Cheers...

Khayu.
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