Hi all,

As you may know, there is a clang-based tool "Include What You Use" [1]. I 
think similar approach could be useful in C-Reduce to remove whole header files 
instead of separate lines. Though I'm not sure it's feasible without 
non-preprocessed source file and compilation command line available.

I can imagine the next algorithm of reduction:

1. Reduce only the last section of translation unit corresponding to original 
source file without #includes using all available passes.
2. Try to remove sections corresponding to "unused" headers
3. Move to section N-1 and proceed.

Assuming that "interesting" fragment of code is located in sections with big 
numbers (source file and local headers) while first sections contain library 
headers, this approach might be more efficient than traditional line-based 
reduction.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/include-what-you-use

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Regards,
Konstantin

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