drag chan wrote: > my question is why every constructor/destructor of class A have a > couple of same code blocks in the object file?
The ABI requires two separate versions of the ctor and dtor, one for when the object being initialized is a base class and one where it's not. Because you used -C to demangle the names you can't see the difference in the labels, but they really are different symbols. It just happens that in most cases the two versions have identical bodies, and they could theoretically be condensend into a single copy with two labels or two entry points. But doing this has ABI compatibility implications. It's a non-trivial problem to solve, and a long-standing wart. See <http://gcc.gnu.org/PR3187>. Brian
