-fexternal-templates

[Jason Merrill]

>>>>> David Gilbert <dg@px.uk.com> writes:

 >   I'm using gcc-2.95.2 and am having a problem with -fexternal-templates.

 > My code is a fairly large chunk of C++ and the binary size is getting
 > somewhat larger than I was expecting; I thus started wondering if I should
 > use the #pragma implementation/interface mechanisms to slim it down a bit.

 > As directed by the documentation I used -fexternal-templates and got an
 > error stating that -fexternal-templates was deprecated and to go look at
 > the coumentation!

 > What is the current advice on this?

If you're using an ELF system (Linux, Solaris, etc.), make sure you're
using the GNU linker and all should be well.  On other targets, use -frepo.

Jason