>No it can't. It has no idea what a function consists of other than a >bunch of bytes, in pretty much all cases. ... Stupid byte >comparisons of functions generally won't save you anything truly >interesting.Microsoft's implementation has proven that "stupid" byte comparions can generate significant savings.
No they haven't. But have fun implementing it in your linker, and still making it safe if that's what you really want. I'm not going to do that, and I don't believe it is a good idea.
