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- From: etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
- Subject: Re: #include file dependancies
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.082922.5261@ericsson.se>
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- Reply-To: etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
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- References: <AJG.92Jul22114544@sp1.ccd.harris.com> <1992Jul23.013154.22987@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>
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- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 08:29:22 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul23.013154.22987@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>,
- ecmtwhk@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Thomas Koenig) writes:
- |> ajg@controls.ccd.harris.com (Arnold Goldberg) writes:
- |>
- |> >We here have a very large source tree.
- |>
- |> >What I'm looking for is a script or utility that will somehow tell
- |> >me which #include files are not actually needed for a source file.
- |>
- |> Gcc (or rather, gcc's preprocessor) has the -M flag which will generate
- |> makefile dependencies for the specified source files; check out the manpage
- |> for your C compiler to see wether it also supports it.
- |> --
- |> Thomas Koenig, ecmtwhk@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz, ib09@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
- |> The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic
- |> diagram.
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- If I interpret Arnold correctly he wants a program that checks which
- include files are used rather than those that are included, there is a
- subtle difference.
-
- --
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- Michael Salmon
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