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Re: What is translation unit
Hello,
Sorry, I did not fully understand. I think mean that number of translation
units = number of cpp files.
Right?
John (Eljay) Love-Jensen wrote:
>
> Hi mahmoodn,
>
>> What is translation unit and how can I determine how many translation
>> unit
>> my code have? :confused:
>
> Let's say you have three source code files, foo.cpp, bar.cpp and baz.cpp.
>
> Here are the three translation units, which translate from the source file
> to the object file.
>
> g++ -c foo.cpp -o foo.o
> g++ -c bar.cpp -o bar.o
> g++ -c baz.cpp -o baz.o
>
>
> When linking the object files together, that process is not a translation
> unit.
>
> g++ foo.o bar.o baz.o -o quux
>
> HTH,
> --Eljay
>
>
>
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