Re: Clarification of 2 Trivial Issues?

Jon Forrest <[email protected]> Thu, 17 Feb 2022 09:57:56 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.make.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On 2/17/2022 9:52 AM, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 2022-02-17 at 08:34 -0800, Jon Forrest wrote:

>> Am I right in assuming that the "file" struct for "main.o" will
>> have nothing in its "prev" and "next" fields, but its "dep"
>> field will have a chain of 2 "dep" structures, one for "main.c"
>> and the other for "defs.h" because "main.c" and "def.h" are
>> dependencies of "main.o"?
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by "next" field in the "file" struct, but
> other than that I believe this is correct.

Stupid me. I meant "last", not "next".

> Of course, you can always break out your trusty debugger and take a
> look for yourself as well :).

I do that all the time. Visual Studio code is my friend.
The hard part is finding the right location to set a
breakpoint to answer the question.

Thanks, as always.

Jon