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Re: [PATCH] C++ space optimization: de-cloning con/de/structors, take III

From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
To: Jason Merrill <jason at redhat dot com>
Cc: Stuart Hastings <stuart at apple dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 10:00:35 -0700
Subject: Re: [PATCH] C++ space optimization: de-cloning con/de/structors, take III
References: <8C10F50C-B0A6-11D6-BBE3-003065ED8B66@apple.com> <wvlhehvhahr.fsf@prospero.cambridge.redhat.com>

On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 02:13:04AM +0100, Jason Merrill wrote:
> It should be possible to have them as private symbols in a COMDAT section,
> which would mean they would be coalesced but not available for reference
> from object files that don't also define them.  Unless that would cause
> problems for objects that called one of the discarded definitions?

Careful: while I believe this works in binutils 2.12, there are
bugs in various previous versions of binutils concerning this.


r~

References:
- [PATCH] C++ space optimization: de-cloning con/de/structors, take III
  - From: Stuart Hastings
- Re: [PATCH] C++ space optimization: de-cloning con/de/structors,take III
  - From: Jason Merrill

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