Michael Van Canneyt <mich...@freepascal.org> schrieb am Mo., 15. Juli 2019, 23:50:
> > > On Mon, 15 Jul 2019, Ben Grasset wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 5:23 PM Sven Barth via fpc-devel < > > fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org> wrote: > > > >> That is exactly what is happening if you have a specialization in > multiple > >> units that don't know about each other. > >> > > > > At what point are they being removed so that the executable is not > > comically large, then? Is it on the FPC side, or the linker side? Or a > bit > > of both perhaps? > > As far as I know, they are not. I believe that when specializing, the > compiler checks if an identical specialization is in scope: > if so, it uses that. If not, a duplicate is made. > > As far as I know, Delphi behaves the same. > Delphi changed this in one of the newer versions. That's also when the behavior of class variables in generics changed. Regards, Sven >
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