Re: Smart compilers?

[Gene Ouye <geneo@PLEASE_NO_UNSOLICITED_MAIL.com>]

Fredrik Thoernblad wrote:
> 
> I thought that one reason for using specs and bodies was that when just
> a body changed and not the spec there was no need to recompile anything
> else than the body.
> This feature seems to be overlooked by the compiler manufacturers.
> At least with my compiler, verdix, and probably Rationals VADS as well,
> haven't had time to try it that much.
> Which ada compilers use this feature to reduce compile time?
> 
> Fredrik
> (fredrik.thornblad@bfs.bofors.se)

Rational's Ada compilers and every other Ada compiler I can think of
makes use of this feature.  Others have already suggested possible
problems with your code, or perhaps you are inadvertantly doing
something that results in the extra compilation, or perhaps you are
seeing messages and inferring that things are happening when they are
not.

If you believe that your compiler really is doing somthing that it
should not be doing, send an example to me and I will look at it.

Gene Ouye <geneo@{my_company}.com>
(sorry for the games, I'm just sick of the spam -- {my_company} is
rational)