Re: Style of libstdc++ header files

[Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>]

Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:

| Benjamin Kosnik wrote:
| 
| >Thanks for your observations Wolfgang. Your efforts on g++ are
| >definitely appreciated, and I look on in amazement at some of the
| >reduction feats that you have pulled off in bugzilla.
| >
| >
| >> My request therefore would be if the libstdc++ people could comment
| >> if it is possible to gradually move away from their style of using
| >> inlined function definitions, and towards a style where function
| >> declarations and definitions are always clearly separated. I
| >> understand that this is a huge change, but one that could make the
| >> life of us bugmasters so much easier!
| >>
| >
| >This will, of course, make the libstdc++ include files bigger for
| >everybody else... but perhaps only marginally so.
| >
| It would be worth measuring compile times before doing that.  Parsing
| declarations is expensive, and you'll now have two for every function.

While I can see the point of Wolfgang, I'm not convinced at all that
V3 should take that path.

-- Gaby