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Re: IMA vs tree-ssa
"Joseph S. Myers" <jsm@polyomino.org.uk> writes:
| On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Mark Mitchell wrote:
|
| > However, I don't think there's any point in all of us debating this
| > issue. We don't agree on the answer, and none of us has a particularly
| > good way of backing up our position. To me, this idea of multiple
| > completions of the same incomplete type is ghastly. You, however,
| > believe it is what the standard requires, and apparently that it is also
| > what the committe intended.
|
| This seems simply to be a difference between C and C++ backgrounds.
| Types in C do not have linkage; those in C++ do. I don't know whether
| this is a deliberate difference, but it is a fairly fundamental one.
It is a deliberate difference. But some types in C++ don't have
linkage (but they are not in consideration here).
-- Gaby