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From: kaufman@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MPW wish list
Keywords: MPW
Message-ID: <1990Feb14.174246.7045@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 14 Feb 90 17:42:46 GMT
References: <1990Jan23.065751.29303@peace.waikato.ac.nz> <6310@internal.Apple.COM> <55359@hobbit.UUCP> <1990Jan25.191441.26280@oracle.com> <416@dbase.A-T.COM> <19240@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <2028@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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In article <2028@rodan.acs.syr.edu> isr@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Michael S. Schechter - ISR group account) writes:
>In article <19240@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> erics@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Eric Schlegel) writes:
-->In article <1990Jan25.191441.26280@oracle.com> omullarn@oracle.com (Oliver Mullarney) writes:
--->- Incremental linking would be nice. Waiting 15 minutes to relink after
--->  a change of one object file is very boring.

->Even better - incremental compilation. Forget to put a semicolon after one
->line in your 2000 line MacApp include file? No problem. The compiler recompile
->_only that one line_ instead of compiling the entire program.

>Maybe incremental compiling down to the line level would be a bit difficult,
>but certainly having it at the routine level would not be that difficult.
>That way as long as arguments, return values, and globals all had the
>same TYPE as before, all you have to update are the address's whereever
>they where referenced.

Incremental (routine level) compilation, with insertion of the new routine
INTO A RUNNING PROGRAM is available with Jasik's "The Debugger".  The
Incremental Build System lets you stop the program, do a side-door exit to MPW,
recompile the offending routine, link it back into the program, and continue
execution.  Especially nice when it takes a long time to execute down to the
problem area.

All that and source level debugging too.

Marc Kaufman (kaufman@Neon.stanford.edu)  [a user of The Debugger and IBS]