On 2009-08-25 20:10:44 -0400, Ellery Newcomer
<[email protected]> said:
Thoughts?
In case you're interested, Xcode, Apple's IDE, has to deal with
multiple versions all the time. It's typical for Mac developement to
build two or four versions of the same executable (PowerPC 32 and/or 64
bit + Intel 32 and/or 64 bit) before merging all four in the same
executable file. That's done automatically by Xcode under the hood by
compiling each file multiple time for all the targets.
So with Xcode you're generally compiling several versions of the same
code at one time. Xcode doesn't do a very rigourous semantic analysis:
it merly ignores conditionals when it gathers its list of symbol for
autocompletion, and it doesn't itself flag errors as you type (it does
run the compiler in the background though, and shows errors inline in
the source code instantanously when you build).
So a similar idea for an IDE like Eclipse/Descent could do is allow you
to select one or more sets of compiler flags and combine the result
(autocompletion choices + errors) in a single view. Xcode does that
only for the architecture.
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Michel Fortin
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http://michelf.com/
