C compile time

[Wolfgang Bangerth]

> Here is an idiom widely used in the LLVM code base, for example:
> http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/doxygen/GCSE_8cpp-source.html

Is this guaranteed to work? I mean, how can the address of a function with 
static linkage be used in a virtual function table? (I think it should work, 
since the vt can only be set up in this very file, but still...)


> Besides the fact that my project would benefit a lot from this, if there
> is no reason to not mark the methods static, we should. 

If the class itself is declared in a an anonymous namespace, I agree.

Not that I'm opposed to your proposal, it's just that I don't see a whole lot 
of code out there that uses this idiom. I wouldn't want to trade this feature 
against another 10% slowdown in the compiler ;-)

W.

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