US 7,689,975 B2Granted

Processing of a compileable computer program

AssigneeNXP B.V.

InventorOndrej Popp

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Abstract

A plurality of source files and one or more header files are provided. The header files that contain information that several of the source files refer to. The original files are preprocessed, each to generate a respective preprocessed file, said preprocessing comprising expanding the several of the source files with the information from a first header 5 file. A collective processing step is applied to make coordinated changes to information from the preprocessed files. The changed preprocessed files are used to regenerate modified source and header files. For regenerating the first header file, one of the preprocessed files is selected on the basis of detection that the selected file elaborates the information from the first header file. The first header file is regenerated from the information in the selected file.

Claims17

Dependent claims

A machine executed method of processing files, the method comprising

providing a plurality of original files;
providing one or more common files, that contain information that several of the original files refer to;
preprocessing the original files each to generate a respective preprocessed file, said preprocessing comprising expanding the several of the original files with the information from a first one of the common files;
applying a collective processing step to make coordinated changes to information from the preprocessed files;
selecting one of the preprocessed files, on the basis of detection that the selected file elaborates the information from the first one of the common files, and
regenerating regenerated files for the original files and the first one of the common files as affected by the collective processing step, said regenerating of the regenerated file for the first one of the common files being controlled using information from the selected preprocessed file, so that information in the selected preprocessed file controls how much will be included in the regenerated file for the first one of the common files.

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A machine programmed for processing files, the machine comprising a storage system for storing a plurality of original files and one or more common files that contain information that several of the original files refer to and a processing system programmed to

preprocess the original files each to generate a respective preprocessed file, said preprocessing comprising expanding the several of the original files with the information from a first one of the common files;
apply a collective processing step to make coordinated changes to information from the preprocessed files;
select one of the preprocessed files, on the basis of detection that the selected file elaborates the information from the first one of the common files, and
regenerate regenerated files for the original files and the first one of the common files as affected by the collective processing step, said regenerating of the regenerated file for the first one of the common files being controlled using information from the selected preprocessed file, so that information in the selected preprocessed file controls how much will be included in the regenerated file for the first one of the common files.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.