Re: How to merge multiple compilation units into a compilation unit.

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

Bo Wang <wangbosky@gmail.com> writes:

> Dear J-P. Rosen
> Thank you for giving me valuable advices.
>> > I want to merge multiple compilation units into a single compilation unit,
>> What do you mean by this? If you have two global package specifications,
>> they /are/ two compilation units. Even if you put them in the same file,
>> they still are two compilation units.
> Perhaps "merge" is vague. I want to create a new compilation unit that
> acts as same as the original two compilation units, so that I can use
> the new compilation unit to replace the original two compilation
> units. 

Are you talking about source code refactoring? Or about loading more
than one compilation unit into an ASIS environment? Or something else?

> When a target program is small-scaled, I can create the new
> compilation unit manually, however, for a large target program that
> has massive compilation units, the manual process is impossible.

If the transformation is literally "impossible" to do manually, then it
is also impossible to do automatically; perhaps you meant "impractical"?

You'll have to give an example of what you are talking about to be clear.

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