AIX I/O failures

[Mark Mitchell]

>>>>> "Gabriel" == Gabriel Dos Reis <Gabriel.Dos-Reis@cmla.ens-cachan.fr> writes:

    Gabriel> Given that cout would be a global reference, we know (at
    Gabriel> worst) at link time which object it is refering to and
    Gabriel> treat it identical to the refered-to object.

I see, you're assuming the optimizer will remove the indirection.

I think the compiler won't do this because the definition of the
reference won't appear in the header file, in your proposal.

You're right that a link-time optimizer could in principle do this.

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