Re: opinions wanted on control of extern inlines

    dwight@pentasoft.com (Dwight VandenBerghe) wrote:
> On 27 Jul 1998 23:18:27 -0400, Rachel-Louise Koktava
> <KittyCrap@severins-child.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
[Most unfounded gripes related to C++ are deleted]


> >I wish to control the production of so called "extern inlines" during
> >the compilation of c++ code. In particular, template instantiation,
> >vtables and copies of inline functions are causing unacceptable levels
> >of code bloat.
>
> I ran into the same problem with gcc 2.7, and it's a big problem.
>
> Can you move to EGCS? Or are you stuck with the vxworks compiler?
>


Use a better compiler like Sun 4.2 (or, soon 5.0) or KAI compiler on
different platforms. The template handling of gcc was the worst. So
do not draw your conclusions about C++ from your (outdated) experience
from gcc. If you take a mid size program written in C or old C++ and
rewrite it modern C++ using exceptions, templates, STL, concrete and
abstract classes, then you can get dramatic reduction in source code
size, great simplicity and thereby better performance.


Hope this helps,
Saroj Mahapatra
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