C++ automatic template instantiation?

[Tudor Hulubei]

  On Friday, 21 April 2000, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
> The other (IMO more important) problem is that it will be always
> possible to trick the -frepo mechanism. For example, I believe
> recompilation currently does not take the GCC_EXEC_PREFIX variable
> into account (or any other environment variable). Also, never move any
> files around between compilation and linking, or recompilation won't
> find the original ones, anymore.

I've seen that too, and I don't mind recompiling after I move files
around.  But I'm not sure I understand why should that impact -frepo's 
mechanism of resolving undefined symbols.

Tudor