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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: "Paul Derbyshire" <pderbysh AT usa DOT net>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 09:53:10 +0000
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Subject: Re: ld 2.8.1 does not remove duplicate template instantiations
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"Paul Derbyshire" <pderbysh AT usa DOT net> wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> >I don't know what are you talking about.  I saw your message posted
> >with no problems at all, several days ago.
> 
> Yeah... and there was a suspicious silence, and when I checked again I saw the
> article had been cancelled off the news servers from comp.os.msdos.djgpp.
> 
> >...it got replied by Ian Taylor, the maintainer of
> >GNU Binutils, saying that the feature you were talking about is
> >probably not supported with COFF.
> 
> Yeah. And between this Linux-chauvinism and -fno-implicit-templates not working
> as advertised, it looks as if I am completely unable to compile any code that
> uses the same template instance in more than one code module, which is simply
> ludicrous and unacceptable.
> 
> I would like to know the solution to the problem, specifically, a short and
> simple and feasible sequence of actions that will enable me to compile any
> valid C++ template code. (And no, I don't consider "Go shell out ~$600 for
> Micro$uck Visual C-It-Crash++" to be feasible...not on a student budget...)

Did you tried to use the methode used in gcc 2.7.x, it works OK for me with 
2.7.x and 2.8.0. I can't say much because my templates are just to play with 
the idea and no much more than this.

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