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Re: Mangled names
- To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Subject: Re: Mangled names
- From: Graham Stott <grahams at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 22:13:07 +0000
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <20010315132853R.mitchell@codesourcery.com>
Mark Mitchell wrote:
>
> Going for low-hanging fruit, I'm going to try to eliminate a lot of
> the excess name-mangling done by the C++ front-end. Preliminary data
> indicates that some 5% of the memory in a relatively small program is
> going for mangled names. There are 19392 mangled names generated by
> the compiler -- of which some 500 or so are actually used in the
> generated assembly. Pretty wasteful.
>
> FYI,
>
> --
> Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
> CodeSourcery, LLC http://www.codesourcery.com
Would it be possible to generate them on an as needed basis?
Graham