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Re: Fix hash table mixup in
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian at wasabisystems dot com>
- To: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp at bitrange dot com>
- Cc: John David Anglin <dave at hiauly1 dot hia dot nrc dot ca>, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com, <schwab at suse dot de>
- Date: 06 Oct 2003 21:42:32 -0700
- Subject: Re: Fix hash table mixup in
- References: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0310062132190.82003-100000@dair.pair.com>
Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com> writes:
> GC:ing unused vtable
> member functions *could* be worthwhile, but since it's unlikely
> to work in the presence of dynamic linking anyway, maybe it
> isn't. Pity those monolithic statically linked C++ apps. :-)
The feature was introduced for eCos. Embedded systems using eCos are
an example of a statically linked C++ app where it is very desirable
to minimize memory footprint.
However, I don't know how much difference this feature made for eCos
applications in practice.
Ian