On Tue, 18 May 1999, Steffen Hansen wrote:

> On Tue, 18 May 1999, Peter Putzer wrote:
> 
> > BUT to gain the mentioned space-benefit with egcs you also have to use the 
> > -fexternal-templates option.
> 
> Are you sure about that? According to the manpage, other stuff like backup
> versions of inline functions, vtables and such is also duplicated for each
> compilation unit. The #pragma's should keep the compiler from duplicating
> this. 

Could be. I just thought most of our bloat stemmed from templates,
therefore...
 
> The real space-benefit would come from intelligent template instantiation
> though, but it seems that -frepo is somehow broken on egcs-1.1.2.
> 

Peter