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Subject: Re: Teaching C/C++ from Ada perspective?
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Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com> writes:

> Yet, the trivial update of P (like adding whitespace, which again has
> no semantic meaning whatsoever) forces the recompilation of Test (with
> GNAT). Actually, it forces the recompilation of everything. Why?

gprbuild:
  -m       Minimum Ada recompilation

Only rebuild if there's a semantic difference

Of course, the relevant specs need to be parsed for this to work.