From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d6f7b92fd11ab291 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-07-17 00:50:59 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!chi1.webusenet.com!news.webusenet.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!nwrdny01.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030708 Thunderbird/0.1a X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Crosspost: Help wanted from comp.compilers References: <_ArRa.80083$ye4.60459@sccrnsc01> In-Reply-To: <_ArRa.80083$ye4.60459@sccrnsc01> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 07:50:57 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.84.202.76 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny01.gnilink.net 1058428257 162.84.202.76 (Thu, 17 Jul 2003 03:50:57 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 03:50:57 EDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:40388 Date: 2003-07-17T07:50:57+00:00 List-Id: tmoran@acm.org wrote: > That's an example of a case where a textually unchanged spec file > needs to be recompiled because of a change in compiler options. But GNAT doesn't do it, as you yourself point out! > Other compilers might lay out records differently according to compiler > switches telling them to optimize for space/time. That would > require cascading recompiles where the only change is to compiler > optimization switches, not to any source files. But I would expect that this happens when new options are applied to the withing program unit, not to the withed one. So you only recompile the things you ask for.