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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>recompile the world</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../R.html" title="R"/><link rel="previous" href="reaper.html" title="reaper"/><link rel="next" href="rectangle-slinger.html" title="rectangle slinger"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">recompile the world</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="reaper.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">R</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="rectangle-slinger.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="recompile-the-world"/><dt xmlns="" id="recompile-the-world"><b>recompile the world</b></dt></dt><dd><p> The surprisingly large amount of work that needs to be done as the
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result of any small but globally visible program change. “<span class="quote">The
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world</span>” may mean the entirety of some huge program, or may in theory
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refer to every program of a certain class in the entire known universe. For
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instance, “<span class="quote">Add one #define to stdio.h, and you have to recompile the
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world.</span>” This means that any minor change to the standard-I/O header
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file theoretically mandates recompiling every C program in existence, even
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if only to verify that the change didn't screw something else up. In
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practice, you may not actually have to recompile the world, but the
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implication is that some human cleverness is required to figure out what
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