Re: PCH for java - is this a good idea?

[Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>]

Martin Kahlert <martin.kahlert@infineon.com> writes:

> So, if i understand you correctly,
> you could argue equally well, that instead of implementing precompiled
> headers for C++, gcc could read in already generated .o files, because the 
> functions inside these files contain (via name mangling) the header information.

Name mangling does not contain enough information.  But you could
read the debug symbols.

Two big problems though:

* C and C++ have conditional compilation, which complicates things.
This is not an issue for Java.

* A given header file does not map to a specific .o file, so it is
more-or-less impossible to resolve a request for a .h file with a
.o containing the needed information.  This is not an issue for Java.
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