Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!kth!enea!maxim!prc
From: prc@maxim.ERBE.SE (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Recursive #includes
Message-ID: <515@maxim.ERBE.SE>
Date: 28 Feb 89 10:30:46 GMT
References: <DLD.89Feb27115937@F.GP.CS.CMU.EDU>
Organization: ERBE DATA AB
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In article <DLD.89Feb27115937@F.GP.CS.CMU.EDU>, dld@F.GP.CS.CMU.EDU (David Detlefs) writes:

> 2) Build a cpp so that it never includes a file twice -- this
> increases efficeincy significantly because, unlike the above, it
> doesn't even have to open the file to determine that it doesn't need
> to be included.  Unfortunately, despite what many of us might think
> about such usage, some files are written to be included multiple
> times.

Well, then make it switch configureable with the "new" behavior
as the default.

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