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Re: Generating dependencies
- From: Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>
- To: Bogdan <love4boobies at yahoo dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:54:19 +0000
- Subject: Re: Generating dependencies
- References: <795622.54709.qm@web37103.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Bogdan wrote:
> The --MD flag used for generating dependencies with GAS also creates object
> files. I couldn't find any flag to only run the GAS preprocessor so what's
> the point of generating dependencies?
Take a look at Tom Tromey's "advanced autodependencies" paper for one
explanation of why it's still useful to have the dependencies after the fact.
http://make.paulandlesley.org/autodep.html
cheers,
DaveK