Re: Crosspost: Help wanted from comp.compilers

["John R. Strohm" <strohm@airmail.net>]

You and I are on the same wavelength.

Some days, it was just easier to recompile everything in the universe, than
try to figure out which pieces had to be recompiled and which didn't, and
then find out I'd missed something.

It does depend, however.  At one company, it took about an hour to rebuild,
even if only a few files had actually changed, because of a whole bunch of
gyrations they'd built into their build process.  If you only had a
four-hour lab slot, and you found out you had to fix something and rebuild,
it got old in a hell of a hurry.  And there WASN'T any kind of hot-patching
capability: you HAD to do a complete build, and trade it out.

"Marin David Condic" <nobody@noplace.com> wrote in message
news:3F15DC68.8090907@noplace.com...
> In some ways, I prefer to shoot everything in the head and *force* a
> recompilation of everything under the sun. That way, I am absolutely
> sure that what got compiled was the latest and greatest of everything
> and there isn't a snowball's chance in hell that I got some old, out of
> date, object file into the build due to some quirk or defect in the
> software that does the recompile. Its cheap insurance. To that end,
> Ada's insistence on consistency checking - even if poor implementations
> are sometimes overly conservative - is a good thing.
>
> MDC
>
>
>
> John R. Strohm wrote:
>
> > Requiring recompilation is, IN THE PRESENCE OF GOOD SOFTWARE
ENGINEERING, a
> > safety check that isn't going to cost THAT much, compared to the
potential
> > cost of NOT recompiling.
> >
>
>
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