You mean sem_names.h . John On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 06:53:19PM +0200, Bert Frees wrote: > make knows when to regenerate sem_enum.h, so you don't have to worry > about longer compile times. > > Bert > > John J. Boyer writes: > > > sem_names.h needs to be generated only when sem_enum.h is changed, which > > is not often. Why bother doing it for each build? > > > > John > > > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 05:10:24PM +0200, Christian Egli wrote: > >> On 06/18/2014 03:33 PM, John J. Boyer wrote: > >> >A note on semantic actions. sem_names.h is a generated file. The basic > >> >file is sem_enum.h . If you add a semantic action you must do it in > >> >sem_enum.h and then run Makesemnames to generate sem_names.f . > >> >Descriptive comments should be in sem_enum.h . It already contains > >> >comments on various classes of semantic actions.Of course this is just > >> >source code documentation. > >> > >> This is something that has been bugging me forever and tree days. > >> Why do we need both these files? Presumably we need both of them. If > >> so then could we not generate the other one based on a simple Perl > >> script that is integrated with the build system? I looked at > >> make_sem_names.c. Am I right in my conclusion that it simply takes > >> all the names from the enum and produces the semNames array? Maybe > >> this could even be done with a preprocessor macro (hmm, on second > >> thought probably not)? > >> > >> I'll spend a few minutes to cook up a script to do this. > >> > >> Thanks > >> Christian > >> > >> -- > >> Christian Egli > >> Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled > >> Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland > >> > >> > >> ----- > >> Tag der offenen Tuer: Die SBS laedt Sie herzlich ein: 28. Juni 2014 > >> von 9 bis 16 Uhr. Mehr Informationen erhalten Sie unter > >> http://www.sbs.ch/offenetuer > >> For a description of the software, to download it and links to > >> project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com > > For a description of the software, to download it and links to > project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Madison, Wisconsin USA Developing software for people with disabilities For a description of the software, to download it and links to project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com