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Re: KDE hackers, please read (was [nathan@codesourcery.com: Re: GCC 3.0.3: Bugs to Fix]) (fwd)


On Dec 10, 2001, Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> wrote:

>> 3) Persuade gcc folks to add compiler switch that makes gcc use string
>> comparing when doing rtti, and simply compile whole KDE with this switch
>> turned on.

> All code in the application -- including the C++ run-time library --
> needs to be compiled the same way, so you would have to rebuild
> everything to do this.

Err...  Wouldn't it be enough to link with a modified version of the
object file that implements rtti comparison?  Or are such comparisons
ever inlined in the generated code?

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