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 2.4.1 Recommendations for Tool Writers
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 We think that every compilation tool ought to be able to generate
 dependencies as a side effect of compilation.  Furthermore, at least
 while 'make'-based tools are nearly universally in use (at least in the
 free software community), the tool itself should generate dummy
 dependencies for header files, to avoid the deleted header file bug.
 Finally, the tool should generate a dependency for each probe, instead
 of each successful file open, in order to avoid the duplicated new
 header bug.
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