It annoys me that changing/adding a comment in a C++ header file means that the next build has to recompile all source files that include that header, even though no code has changed.
This can have a massive impact on build times, especially when you use a documentation generator (ala Doxygen) and have to keep the comments up-to-date in the class header files.
It can’t be that hard for VS to track edits to real code as opposed to comments, can it?
October 20, 2008 at 7:53 am |
Please let me know if there are any development tools where it does a ‘diff’ before a build to determine if the code-base need re-compiling.
I don’t know of any.