empty function optimizations

[Michael Meissner]

On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 11:00:40PM +0200, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
> > I thought we were going towards a standarized ABI and mangling scheme, I.e.
> > we'll have no freedom to change the mangling?
> 
> Certainly. I was not actually proposing this for gcc 3. It may be
> subject for study in gcc 4, with version 2 of the C++ ABI using such a
> feature in gcc 5, to be released in 2020 :-)

I believe there are ABIs out there such as the IA64 ABI that are going to want
G++ adhere to a standard mangling/vtable/etc. format so that all C++ compilers
on the system are interoperable.

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