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From: ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Including header files minimally.
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Date: 15 Nov 88 10:06:22 GMT
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In article <186@tityus.UUCP> jim@athsys.uucp (Jim Becker) describes
>a special option for
>the compiler that would take the symbol table that it currently had
>and outputing the content as a "library" file.

>I have been surprised that this concept hasn't yet come into
>other products that I have crossed paths with, as it seems very
>elegant and nice (w/ not much effort).

That's an _old_ technique!  Burroughs were using it _years_ ago on
their mainframe Algol, Fortran, COBOL, &c compilers.  It has been
described several times in the technical literature.  And of course
Simula 67 was doing fully type-checked separate compilation with
symbol-table files before C (plain C) was dreamed of.