Rick Hodgin <foxmuldrs...@yahoo.com> writes: > The idea is to create a program database of the compiled program on a > full compile. Then when asked to re-compile with the edit-and-continue > switch, it only looks for changed code and compiles those few > lines. Everything else it needs to carry out compilation is there from > previous full-compile as was originally parsed, or from subsequent > edit-and-continue compiles which updated the database.
This idea is related to Tom Tromey's incremental compiler work (http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/IncrementalCompiler) and to Per Bothner's compiler server work (http://per.bothner.com/papers/GccSummit03-slides/index.html). Neither project is currently active. I believe that Diego Novillo is currently doing some work along these lines but I don't know what the status is. Ian
