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Re: [Tooling] [isocpp-modules] Dependency information for module-aware build tools

From: Mathias Stearn <redbeard0531+isocpp_at_[hidden]>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2019 15:01:40 -0500
On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 10:18 AM Nathan Sidwell <nathan_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Yes, a BMI is required for a header import. Textually including the
> header import's original header file is not equivalent.
>

It won't be required for the scan stage will it? If it is, there is a
bootstrapping problem because there is no good way to figure out which
order to build the header-unit BMIs in if they import other header-units.
I've been assuming that the scan stage will be able to just temporarily
mask off the defines and replace them with the correct ones for the
header-unit while scanning a file, so that scanning has no generated
dependencies.

Received on 2019-03-06 21:01:54