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Re: -fno-rtti
"Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com> wrote:
> The Cygwin DLL has always used "c++ lite". Part of the reason
was that
> g++ didn't work too well when cygwin was first conceived so
things like
> dynamic casts and exceptions were to be avoided. Part of the
reason
> was that the original developer was teaching himself c++ when he
initially
> wrote cygwin.
>
> My preference would be for you to avoid the use of this feature.
9k is
> 9k. We already seem to grow and slow the dll with each release.
I'd
> rather not make a conscious decision to do this when it can be
avoided.
Fair enough: I'm a bit blase about code size, due in part to the
environments I've worked in recently, but that doesn't mean big is
beautiful. I noted your appreciation of that recent patch that
removed both code and bug in one fell swoop but I seem to tend in
the other direction (that's "more code", not "more bugs" -- I hope
. . .)
Would the alternative of compiling just the cygserver with rtti be
acceptable? For the problem I've got (which is defining equality
operators on a class hierarchy) rolling my own code would probably
cost more in terms of space and time than the native C++ rtti.
Oh! and a much more important reason: it would be irritating too
:-)
// Conrad