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Re: (C++) High memory usage with templates
On Dec 2, 1998, Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> wrote:
> -fsquangle
> Hm... this wil create yet another incompatible binary C++ format for
> .so files compiled with gcc derivates. Not sure that is a good thing
> (which is presumably why this option is turned on by default?).
ASsuming you mean it is turned *off* by default, yes, it will lead to
binary incompatibility, but so will complete namespace support
(::std:: != ::) and the empty base class optimization, so we're
waiting for all this work to be complete before enabling all the
incompatibilities at once.
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Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva aoliva@{acm.org}
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil