Re: Weeding out unwanted include files

sriram@tcs.com (Sriram Srinivasan) writes:
}I want to develop a tool that finds out which include files are
}useless, so as to reduce compile time. ...
}Before I embark on this decidedly non-trivial exercise, I'd like to find
}out if someone else has implemented any such thing.


While I don't know if there is any public-domain program to do this, I do
know that (in a previous job) I used Gimpel's FlexeLint to detect unused
header files.


FlexeLint is an excellent program for detecting problems with C code. It
also has a number of non-obvious uses. (I used it as the main engine in a
shell script to generate header files from source files.) I reccomend it
highly.


Disclaimer: I have no connection with Gimpel other than as a satisfied
(former) user.
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Paul Zola pzola@oracle.com
Senior Technical Analyst -- Worldwide Technical Support
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