On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> If it's const, it shouldn't be linked into anything at all... right?
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 07:51:41PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> Sorry, Jeff, I don't get your point.
I suspect this assumes const values will get constant folded, which I'm
not sure is the case, though it certainly sounds legal and worthwhile
for a compiler to do when reasonable (i.e. for small structures and/or
extractions of small fields of const structures).
-- wli
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