From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com>
To: khan@xraylith.wisc.edu (Mumit Khan)
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: (1.0.2) std/bastring.h change -- Why add std/bastring.cc?
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 10:40:00 -0000
Message-id: <199802171840.KAA06006@atrus.synopsys.com>
References: <9802171751.AA16745@modi.xraylith.wisc.edu>
X-SW-Source: 1998-02/msg00822.html

> Both pre-1.0.2 and new'ish snapshots have the Jason's Feb 12 change
> where he adds bastring.cc to bastring.h. Why was this necessary? It
> would seem to cause unnecessary code-bloat on non-ELF (and PE when 
> the bugs are fixed) systems. What am I missing here?

It is bloat on ELF platforms too: bigger object files, and the string
functions are no longer in the shared library.