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Re: compilercache-1.0.7 released
- To: erikyyy at erikyyy dot de (Erik Thiele)
- Subject: Re: compilercache-1.0.7 released
- From: Joern Rennecke <amylaar at cambridge dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 19:28:32 +0100 (BST)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
> what is heavily needed is a C* sourcecode unique-ifier !
> i.e. replace all blanks and newlines and comments and combinations of those
> by a SINGLE newline, and remove all preprocessor (#) lines. but don't destroy
> strings that are multiline! and all this in a ultra fast little program,
> preferable a sed script, but C/lex would also be ok.
That would wreak havok with source-level debugging.
> once this is done, the linux kernel compilation will really rock.
> right now if you change the kernel config, the config.h file will
> contain many blanks that it didn't contain before. since everybody includes
> this file, nothing will cache.
Maybe you should better look into the reason for these varying amounts
of blanks.