Hi Stephan,

On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 09:09 +0100, Stephan Bergmann wrote:

> It was introduced and heavily used at a time when compiler-based RTTI 
> was still unavailable or too expensive.  It would not be necessary today 
> that we have compiler-based RTTI available everywhere, but I guess that 
> lots of code have not been adapted accordingly and thus still use the 
> old stuff.

Gotcha.  That was my guess as well.

Another macro I just came across is __EXPORT.  It is defined in
tools/solar.h but it's an empty definition:

  #define __EXPORT

Do we still need this one or we can stop using it?

Thanks,

Kohei


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