number of vector template instances and pointers

[Dan Kegel]

Fery wrote:
> When I create two vectors with different pointer types (e.g.
> vector<char*> and vector<int*>), gcc compiles in two instances of vector
> code. In SH architecture, it means cca. n * 10K of code, which is quite
> big in our project.
> 
> The question is, can I somehow force the compiler to use the same code
> for the two template instances?

If the object code generated for the two is really identical,
then if you really wanted to, you could write a whole-program
optimizer pass that combined them.

This is a topic for the gcc or libstdc++ mailing lists, though,
where people actually know something about this, so I'm redirecting there.
- Dan

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