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| Re: Templates in C++ jplevyak@violet-femmes.cs.uiuc.edu (1995-05-17) |
| Re: Templates in C++ bill@amber.ssd.hcsc.com (1995-05-25) |
| Re: Templates in C++ kanze@gabi-soft.fr (1995-05-29) |
| Re: Templates in C++ mac@coos.dartmouth.edu (1995-06-23) |
| Re: Templates in C++ shankar@sgihub.corp.sgi.com (1995-06-25) |
| Re: Templates in C++ bill@amber.ssd.hcsc.com (1995-06-30) |
| Re: Templates in C++ collberg@cs.auckland.ac.nz (1995-07-12) |
| Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
| From: | collberg@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Christian Collberg) |
| Keywords: | C++, performance |
| Organization: | Compilers Central |
| References: | 95-05-081 95-06-026 |
| Date: | Wed, 12 Jul 1995 00:57:54 GMT |
mac@coos.dartmouth.edu (Alex Colvin) writes:
>One of the things that forces recompilation of C++ programs is that
>class definitions must list all their (private) members.
>Is the main reason for this the need for structure sizes at
>compile-time? Would link-time be sufficient? Could structure and stack
>frame sizes be computed at link time as the sum of constants generated
>by separate compilations?
>Are their many linkers capable of performing such arithmetic?
Yes, this technique is rediscovered every 3 years or so.
See Mary Fernandez' PLDI'95 paper and forthcoming Princeton
thesis, and my thesis (Flexible Encapsulation, Lund
University, Sweden, 1992).
For further references see
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~collberg/Research/References/linking.html
Christian
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