Re: [avr-gcc-list] Suggestion

[Ned Konz]

On May 1, 2006, at 12:56 PM, Royce Pereira wrote:

> Hi,
> On Tue, 02 May 2006 01:07:29 +0530, Joerg Wunsch  
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > "Royce Pereira" <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > Can I get the same in my AVR-GCC .lst, .lss etc output files thru my
> > > makefile ?
> >
> > Even though Ned already showed you a way, I'm curious: what  
> > additional
> > information would gain that that is not already present in the file
> > timestamp(s)?  OK, the timestamps are referring to the end of
>
> Sometimes I never know if the generated file was from the compiling  
> I just did or from a previous compiling. By looking at the time- 
> stamp, I know if it's been generated 1 minute ago, it's fresh.
>
> But if it still has last weeks time stamp after compiling, then uh-oh!
>
> It's just something I got used to with SDCC, coz sometimes some  
> error messages were not being redirected to my editor window, so  
> that was the only way to check if the compiling was successful.
>
> Of course, one can check the file creation date via explorer, but  
> this is convenient, and also the time stamp wont change inadvertently.

I think that probably the best bet is to have a properly written  
Makefile; Make is very good at looking at timestamps and comparing  
them. Why would you have to?

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Ned Konz
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