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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: MPW Pascal precompilation
Message-ID: <12631@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 2 Oct 90 19:52:22 GMT
Organization: Electronics for Imaging, San Bruno CA
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I've started doing some work in MPW Pascal, and I was wondering how I
should manage the strange header-precompilation scheme.  It seems as if
the only way to avoid constant rebuilding of the headers (as shown by
the Pascal progress information) is to always include exactly the same
files in exactly the same order.  This is obviously impossible for any
project of significant size and circular reference.

What's more, because of build-order considerations, sometimes a file
will not compile because of missing units, whereas it did build earlier
provided it came after another file whose unit list somewhow caused the
missing unit to be included in another file's precompiled header.

How do others deal with optimizing the precompiled headers?
-- 
Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com

"He goes on about the wailing and gnashing of teeth.  It comes in one
 verse after another, and it is quite manifest to the reader that there
 is a certain pleasure in contemplating the wailing and gnashing of
 teeth, or else it would not occur so often."
	-- Bertrand Russell, "Why I Am Not a Christian"