Style of libstdc++ header files

[Mark Mitchell]

Benjamin Kosnik wrote:

>Thanks for your observations Wolfgang. Your efforts on g++ are
>definitely appreciated, and I look on in amazement at some of the
>reduction feats that you have pulled off in bugzilla.
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>>My request therefore would be if the libstdc++ people could comment if it is 
>>possible to gradually move away from their style of using inlined function 
>>definitions, and towards a style where function declarations and definitions 
>>are always clearly separated. I understand that this is a huge change, but 
>>one that could make the life of us bugmasters so much easier!
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>This will, of course, make the libstdc++ include files bigger for
>everybody else... but perhaps only marginally so.
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It would be worth measuring compile times before doing that.  Parsing 
declarations is expensive, and you'll now have two for every function.

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