(1.0.2) std/bastring.h change -- Why add std/bastring.cc?

Joe Buck jbuck@synopsys.com
Tue Feb 17 10:40:00 GMT 1998


> Both pre-1.0.2 and new'ish snapshots have the Jason's Feb 12 change
> where he adds bastring.cc to bastring.h. Why was this necessary? It
> would seem to cause unnecessary code-bloat on non-ELF (and PE when 
> the bugs are fixed) systems. What am I missing here?

It is bloat on ELF platforms too: bigger object files, and the string
functions are no longer in the shared library.




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