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Re: using templates in shared library
- To: K dot Peeters at damtp dot cam dot ac dot uk (Kasper Peeters)
- Subject: Re: using templates in shared library
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at Synopsys dot COM>
- Date: Thu, 10 Dec 98 14:44:16 PST
- Cc: martin at mira dot isdn dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de, egcs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
> All symbols _are_ already instantiated in the library. The question is
> how to get rid of them in the library or program linking to it.
The GNU linker already removes redundant templates from an executable.
It can do this because templates are put into special "linkonce" sections.
This feature works on ELF platforms such as Linux or Solaris. This
means that you are paying in disk space to store extra templates in
.o files, but you are not paying for disk space or memory for executable
files.
Ideally, we should also be able to do the same with shared libraries.