------- Comment #21 from pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org 2006-02-05 00:27 ------- Subject: Re: gcc lays down two copies of constructors
On Feb 4, 2006, at 7:20 PM, ian at airs dot com wrote: > > > ------- Comment #20 from ian at airs dot com 2006-02-05 00:19 ------- > In many common cases, the two constructors are identical. It should > not be > hard to simply emit both appropriate symbols before the function. > That does > not require any change to the ABI, but it eliminates the problem in > the common > case. But that does not work for some assemblers/file formats (like Darwin) as Darwin's as finds subsections via labels. There has been some discussion on why this suggestion would not work on the mailing list (but I cannot find it right now). Thanks, Andrew Pinski -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3187
