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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 15, 1999
Carl D. Burch, Cupertino, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
An incremental selective compiler tool that minimizes compilation of intermediate code files by reusing object code files during the compilation and linking process. The compiler tool determines when the results of previous compilations of intermediate code files, that is object code files, may be reused in subsequent execution. That is, the incremental selective compiler tool determines whether compiler directives of an intermediate code file have changed between invocations of the linker, thereby requiring recompilation of the intermediate file to complete the linking process. The present invention also incrementally recompiles only those intermediate code files with compiler directives that have changed since the prior code generation. The incremental selective compiler tool supports arbitrary copying and movement of intermediate code files and object code files within a file system and between file systems while continuing to enable reuse of the object code files.