Fix hash table mixup in
Ian Lance Taylor
ian@wasabisystems.com
Tue Oct 7 04:42:00 GMT 2003
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
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