Re: C++: STL 3.2

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

>>>>> "Philipp" == Philipp Thomas <kthomas@gwdg.de> writes:

    Philipp> On Mon, 26 Apr 1999 12:04:22 -0700, you wrote:

    >> We worked very hard to make these "sloppy" so that the kinds of
    >> differences people don't care about didn't get flagged, unless
    >> you were in a "pedantic" mode.  Fun stuff, would be nice to
    >> have in GCC someday.

    Philipp> I agree that this sounds fun, but this task would be up
    Philipp> to the binutils folks, no ?

Not entirely.  You need cooperation both from the compiler and the
linker.  (In our implementation, a separate prelinker was run, so we
only needed help from the compiler.  In fact, we didn't even need that;
we just put stuff directly in the object-file after the compiler ran.) 
But, in GNU-land, it would make sense to have the compiler insert the
ODR records and have the linker check them.

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