Re: What happens to DEC Ada?

["nicolas" <n.brunot@cadwin.com>]

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"Larry Kilgallen" <Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam> a �crit dans le
message news: NKj7nYr7sQCg@eisner.encompasserve.org...
> In article <%jra7.3545$257.153834@ozemail.com.au>, "Chris Miller"
<chrismil@ozemail.com.au> writes:
>
> > I seem to recall that it had a very smart recompilation algorithm that
could
> > drastically reduce the set of files that had to be recompiled after a
change
> > had been made. Instead of just using file timestamp and "with" clause
> > dependencies, it would actually look into the code and deduce that most
of
> > the recompilations were unnecessary. Very fast - great for big projects.

Beside that, the timestamp method cannot always be trusted.
We had problems with gnatmake which doesn't always recompile necessary
files.
The problem occurs when several files in different directories have same
name, same timestamp, and are selected with ADA_INCLUDE_PATH
timestamp and name of the file is checked, they are the sames, gnatmake
doesn't figure out that this is a different file and doesn't recompile it.