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From: "A. Sinan Unur" <asu1 AT cornell DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Precompiled headers.
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 20:11:57 -0400
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John M. Aldrich wrote:
> 
> Gregary J Boyles wrote:
> >
> > Does DJGPP have them?

no it doesn't.

> 
> What are they?  And why would you want them?  Headers get inserted 
> into your code by the preprocessor and compiled along with the rest of 
> your program.  I'm afraid that I don't understand what you're asking.
> 

they are files that contain the preprocessed contents of all the headers
you included. this time, the second time you compile, the compiler can
just get the tokenized versions of the files instead of reading the text
again etc. ms vc and the like use them.

-- 
   Sinan
 
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