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Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2018

Filed:

Jun. 09, 2015
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Jin Song Ji, Ponte Verde, FL (US);

Yan Liu, Markham, CA;

Yi Zeng Mao, Shanghai, CN;

Qing Shan Zhang, Shanghai, CN;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/41 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/48 (2013.01); G06F 8/423 (2013.01);
Abstract

There is provided a method for processing a source file to generate an object file, comprising: obtaining a header file referenced by the source file; in response to the source file calling a data symbol defined in the header file, creating an indicator of a definition the data symbol, wherein definitions of different data symbols correspond to different indicators; and adding the indicator into a compiling result of compiling the source file so as to generate the object file. With the present invention, a dependency between the source file and the header file can be recorded, and the number of source files needed to be re-compiled can be reduced on the basis of the dependency.


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