Fredrik Eriksson <fe79}--at--{yahoo}--dot--{com> wrote:
> Some linkers can recognise that the generated code is identical, and merge  
> all the copies.

  Not "some". All of them. They have to.

  That's because, AFAIK, as per the C++ standard, you have to be able to,
for example, create a function pointer to a given template function, and
if two pointers initialized in different compilation units point to the
same function, they have to compare equal. Another requisite is that if
there are static variables inside the function, they must all use the same
static variable.

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                                                          - Warp

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