HL>Hello Tim
Howdy!
TH>Using PBC I have the following metastatement:
TH>$COMPILE memory
TH>Question: Where is the program that is 'compiled to memory?'
TH>If it is in memory, what is its location?
HL>With PBC, It will compile to memory, but unloads itself after
HL>compiling. The compiled program will be somewhere in memory, but
HL>because PBC unloaded itself the memory is released. PBC doesn't
HL>make an exe file, however. I conclude that it is rather pointless
HL>to use this metastatement with PBC.
Yes, that does seem to be the case.
I asked a tech at PowerBASIC, and I got the sort of answer that
reminds of a joke I heard about the lost helicopter pilot somewhere
over foggy Seattle. The poor fella was flying around aimlessly unable
to see with half-mile visibility. He flew up to a large building and
held up a sign, "Where am I?" An office worker responded by
displaying his sign, "You are in a helicopter."
With that the pilot knew exactly where he was and flew directly to
SeaTAC airport. When the passenger asked him how he knew where he was
given the dumb response, he said, "I know it was the Microsoft
building when I got a technically correct but totally useless
answer." [grin]
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BTW, PBC makes fine chain files, which I make much use of. They
compile a bit fatster, and saves on some disk space, not that I'm
short of that stuff... at least not right now. [grin]
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