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- E! for Windows - Technical Note #004
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- Lengthy scanning of the compiler output file
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- To find error messages in the compiler output file, E! processes each line
- of this file (EWX.OUT) and checks it against the list of files generated by
- your Project file. If this list contains numerous files (many wildcards
- specifications), scanning the output file will take time. Sometimes minutes.
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- If you can't wait that much, you may try to shorten the process by giving
- hints to E! about the compiler output. This is done through the
- 'compkeywords' entry of the [sytem] section of EW.INI. Before submitting any
- line of the output file to the Analyzer, E! will check whether that line
- contains one of the keywords added to this entry (up to 10 keywords, up to
- 20 characters each).
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- If at least one of these keywords couldn't be found in the line, it is
- discarded, thus sparing the time needed to traverse the list of filenames
- belonging to the Project file. The time spared using this technique can be
- very big when the Project file and / or the compiler output file contain a
- reasonable amount of lines.
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- Patrick Philippot
- 02/27/93
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