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From: robert@pvab.UUCP (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Managing C++ Libraries: Dependencies and Headers
Summary: Implicit includes?
Message-ID: <339@pvab.UUCP>
Date: 8 Nov 88 08:43:55 GMT
References: <5078@thorin.cs.unc.edu> <7573@nsc.nsc.com> <8370@nlm-mcs.arpa>
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In article <8370@nlm-mcs.arpa>, mjr@vax2.nlm.nih.gov.nlm.nih.gov (Marcus J. Ranum) writes:

> If we assume that the job of the
> preprocessor is to handle file inclusion and conditional compilation,
> I'd suggest that it could be replaced with something that acted more
> like a linker than a pre-processor.

If such a pre-linker/processor is implemented, maybe we wouldn't need
to explicitly #include files anymore? The preprocessor could look for
declarations of external objects and identifiers in a database or library
much in the same way as 'ld' does today.
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