If you are willing to restrict edit-and-continue to whole procedures
then minimal changes to the compiled
code for procedure entry points is all that is required (well that and
dlopen).
Terrence MIller
On 7/18/2010 12:14 PM, Dave Korn wrote:
On 18/07/2010 16:28, Robert Dewar wrote:
Rick Hodgin wrote:
Ian,
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.
Unlikely to be feasible in my view without slowing down compilation
substantially.
I think you're probably assuming too much. Tom T. is working on an
incremental compiler, isn't he? I expect that that and LTO between them would
/ could give us all the tools we needed to make an EAC-friendly compiler.
But yes, OP, it's a long-term project.
cheers,
DaveK
