Thread: Preventing Creation Of Precompiled Header Files

The school bot that grades projects at my school has a file size limit of around 1M. My current project is well below that mark, however, for some reason during compilation a precompiled header file, .pch, is created for each of my headers; around 700KB each one. This makes my project too big for the bot to handle.

After searching online, I see that pchs in gcc, are only created after specifying the -x flag, which I'm not using. The macs at my school use Clang, not gcc, but I believe they behave similarly in this respect. So I am at a loss here. How can I prevent these files .pch from being created in the first place?

Thank you guys.

Yes, I only submit headers and source files, plus my Makefile. It is possible that I inadvertently used an "illegal" name, I will investigate. For now, I got around the issue by placing a line with find, xargs and rm in the make all recipe to get rid of the .pch files right after compilation.

Thanks.

If you want to share your Makefile and we can see if there's anything interesting there. The only thing I saw in a bit of websearching is that clang might be tempted to make a pch file if you specify the header in the compile line (instead of just using #include instead), so perhaps that has happened somehow.