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Re: C++ PATCH: PR 15815
On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 11:06:54 -0700, Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> Geoff Keating wrote:
>
>> I can think of one case. Suppose you're writing a shared library, and
>> you want to make as much shared as possible. It would be nice to be
>> able to force a single out-of-line copy of the inline function, so
>> that it doesn't get put in every application that uses the library.
>
> In that case, you probably didn't really want it to be inline. If you
> really did want it to be inline with the shared object, but not in other
> parts of your application, then you need to create two different copies of
> the function -- an inline one and a non-inline one, which calls the inline
> version. Or, you can make the inline body visible only within the shared
> library, using macros.
>
> "#pragma interface" and "#pragma implementation" are just unportable ways
> of doing that kind of thing.
Unportable, but much simpler than the workarounds you describe, and still
quite widespread--throughout libjava, for instance. Removing this
extension will cause a lot of headaches.
The PR is about misleading documentation. Removing the feature seems like
a significant overreaction.
Jason