http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43601
--- Comment #31 from Vadim Zeitlin <vz-gcc at zeitlins dot org> 2010-09-27 22:42:55 UTC --- (In reply to comment #30) > Sorry, but I do not completely agree with this assessment. If you run > > objdump -h <object> | c++filt > > you will see that 4.4 still generates one section per method, not per class > (the name of the method is reveled by c++filt). This is somewhat off topic but unfortunately (MinGW) c++filt doesn't work for me, e.g.: % echo '.text$_ZNK17wxMBConvUTF16Base11GetMBNulLenEv'|/mingw/bin/c++filt.exe .text$_ZNK17wxMBConvUTF16Base11GetMBNulLenEv I don't know what could be wrong with it but, anyhow, you're right, of course, and I was wrong (I managed to look at the classes whose methods were not used by the object file I was checking...), sorry for misinformation and thanks for correcting it! > In my view, the difference is only that 4.5 emits a section for every inline > method of every dllexported class in sight. 4.4 only emitted those which the > code actually needed. Yes, exactly. > Why there is one section for each emitted inline method? Excellent question which I'm unfortunately totally unable to answer.
