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Re: empty function optimizations
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 12:07:49AM +0200, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
> > > Certainly. I was not actually proposing this for gcc 3. It may be
> > > subject for study in gcc 4, with version 2 of the C++ ABI using such a
> > > feature in gcc 5, to be released in 2020 :-)
>
> > I believe there are ABIs out there such as the IA64 ABI that are
> > going to want G++ adhere to a standard mangling/vtable/etc. format
> > so that all C++ compilers on the system are interoperable.
>
> That was the ABI I was talking about. Who says the same set of vendors
> couldn't agree on advanced techniques within the next 20 years?
More likely, after publishing the ABI, the committee will go out of existence,
leaving it impossible to add anything to the ABI or modify it, like happened
with the AT&T derivved ABI's like the 386 ABI (which mandates doubles have 4
byte alignment because it was beneficial to the original 386).
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