[pooma-dev] Still more questions on GCC

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Dave Nystrom <wdn at lanl.gov> writes:

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| Does GCC work in some different manner so that templates get compiled even if
| they are not referenced.

Formally, if the template is never referenced in a wya which requires
its instantiation, then GCC (at least, since the 2.95 series) won't
instantiate it.  Do you have a specific example on which EDG-base
compilers and GCC fundamentally different behaviour?  

|  I don't know if I am even making sense here but I
| am worried that I may be trying to compile code in TecFramework that has
| never been compiled by our other compilers and thus may be buggy.  Is that
| possible?

That is possible, but without no concrete example, anything I could
say would be speculations.

I find it a good thing to exercise your code with at least two
different compilers.

Best,

-- Gaby
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