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gcc comments on this here [0]. Am I correct in understanding that the Cfront model is weak symbols, while Borland is the prelinker? [0] https://gcc.gnu.org/onl

gcc comments on this here [0]. Am I correct in understanding that the Cfront model is weak symbols, while Borland is the prelinker? [0] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-5.5.0/gcc/Template-Instantiation.html https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-5.5.0/gcc/Template-Instan...

aidenn0 8y ago
That's backwards if my memory is correct. Borland compiled a copy of the template for each file[1] you compiled, but cfront tried to compile each template only once. Cfront also basically never worked well. 1: the technical term is "compilation unit" since #include means you're never compiling just one file