Bug 1989

Placeholder for an issue to reduce footprint/compilation time, split the 
Sequence files

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On Wednesday, 24 November, 2004 at 16:28:41 +0100, Johnny Willemsen wrote:
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 > When I look at the generated code, in the C.h the file Sequence_T.h is
 > included, which includes Sequence.h. When we split Sequence.h without
 > splitting Sequence_T.h then in Sequence_T.h we have to include all new
 > Sequence files and only can just include Sequence_T.h, we have then the
 > reduction in footprint, but not in the amount of includes. When we also
 > split Sequence_T.h, each new _T file can include just the needed new
 > Sequence files, and then also the IDL compiler can generate a more specific
 > include than Sequence_T.h, which could save us includes there.

I know you were going to talk about this :-)! 

The reason Sequence.h is there in Sequence_T.h, AFAIK (and remember)
is that you need the specializations to be available before the
template class definitions so that the compiler can pick it up. To get
around this, we could do 

1. remove Sequence.h from the Sequence_T.h, split Sequence.h and


2. Make the IDL compiler include the right Sequence_*.h header file
   before Sequence_T.h The IDL has backend has enough information for
   this to happen. 

   or

3. Create an IDL_Sequence_T.h which includes all the Sequence_*.h and
   Sequence_T.h. The generated code can then include IDL_Sequence_T.h 


I like #2 BTW. 

Thanks
bala