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From: Mats Karlssohn <mats@mida.se>
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Subject: Re: newbie can't get exceptions to work!
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"Samuel T. Harris" wrote:
%<
> Since a dynamic dispatching call involves a access to a class-wide
> type and the caller class does not have knowledge at compile time
> of ALL the tagged types under the class-wide type, the compiler
> cannot inline while compiling the call. It would have to insert
> the appropriate inlining during some binding stage just before
> linking when all the compilation artifacts are available.

Yes, I see. Of the compilers in the market, how many already has
parts of such functionality in the binder/prelinker/linker ?
Can anyone give an educated guess ?

> Many compilers require the body of an inlined subprogram
> to be _already_ compiled in order for inlining to work. Such
> compilers will definitely not suppor the notion of inline
> dispatching calls.

OK, that makes sense, tnx for clering my mind up!


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