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gcc-defaults package

  1. Bug #305460
  2. Comment #19

Comment 19 for bug 305460

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In , Redi (redi) wrote :

(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #16)
> I'm not quite sure what a key function is,

Then read the link I gave you in PR 104918 comment 1.

> Not just learners. If you have a large class with many methods, whose
> implementation is spread across many files, it can take quite a bit of time
> to figure out which method implementation is missing.

The first one. They key function is the first non-inline, non-pure virtual function. Read the wiki page. I didn't write that page and suggest you read it just for fun.

The linker could easily say that, with no changes from GCC. That belongs in the binutils bugzilla though.