Merging calls to `abort'
Richard Stallman
rms@gnu.org
Tue Mar 15 00:17:00 GMT 2005
The __FILE__ strings will be combined, so you get a most one of it for
each object file.
You're right about that. So the increase in size due to fancy_abort
will be somewhat less than I previously said. However, it will still
be an increase in size, compared with using abort and not
cross-jumping.
So the conclusion doesn't change: it makes no sense to insist on
cross-jumping abort calls to make the binary smaller, and tell the
user to deal with the resulting inconvenience with a technique that
makes the binary even bigger.
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