Re: #include file dependancies

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From: Thomas Koenig
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 01:31

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ajg@controls.ccd.harris.com (Arnold Goldberg) writes:

>We here have a very large source tree.

>What I'm looking for is a script or utility that will somehow tell
>me which #include files are not actually needed for a source file.

Gcc (or rather, gcc's preprocessor) has the -M flag which will generate
makefile dependencies for the specified source files; check out the manpage
for your C compiler to see wether it also supports it.
-- 
Thomas Koenig, ecmtwhk@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz, ib09@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic
diagram.

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Subject: Re: #include file dependancies
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From: ecmtwhk@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Thomas Koenig)
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 01:31:54 GMT
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