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Re: using templates in shared library
- To: K dot Peeters at damtp dot cam dot ac dot uk
- Subject: Re: using templates in shared library
- From: mrs at wrs dot com (Mike Stump)
- Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 13:54:10 -0800
- Cc: egcs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
> From: Kasper Peeters <K.Peeters@damtp.cam.ac.uk>
> Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 20:43:54 +0000 (GMT)
> But more importantly: you can't be serious about pushing this as the
> proper method to do it. -frepo wastes CPU cycles
? Give us some hard numbers as to the cycles wasted. I don't think
it'll amount to much in a real project.
> and during build I have to confront my poor users with screens full
> of error messages? Yes, I can redirect to /dev/null too, but this
> is definitely not what I want.
? If they are redirected, why would your poor users be confronted
with them. I agree it does feel a little messy though.
> Is there any reason why _in principle_ the linker couldn't do what I
> want? It seems so completely trivial to me (at least, _much_ easier
> than most other template things egcs can do these days).
I see no reason why it can't, we look forward to a submission for this
enhancement from you. :-) If you want to wait for someone else to do
it, it may take a while.