V3 PATCH: Static data members
Gabriel Dos Reis
gdr@codesourcery.com
Wed Nov 15 17:26:00 GMT 2000
Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:
| G++ doesn't handle static data members well (they are not implicitly
| instantiated) on AIX, and it may not do so in the near future. It
| handles *const* static data members better, because it often doesn't
| actually allocate storage for the constants.
Is that a conforming behaviour? static data members have external
linkage and I would expect the compiler to allocate storage for such
beasts.
You've hit a reason why I recommand using enums where possible in lieu
of static integral data members. See a recent patch of mine about
_Count_ones<>.
| That means that we should try to avoid non-const static data members
| in V3, when possible.
Agreed. As a related note I encourage people interested in V3
developement to take a look at bits/cpp_tyoe_traits.h. Comments are
welcome.
-- Gaby
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