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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: Conditional compilation in Ada?
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:12:59 +0000 (UTC)
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"Georg Bauhaus" <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> wrote in message 
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> Martin Dowie <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com> wrote:
>
> : I've seen compilers that do this for the variant record method (most 
> seem to
> : in my experience) - is this true for the OO method?
>
> Do you mean, the OO method with dispatching calls?

I mean the OO method as descibed in this thread - i.e. do compilers _really_ 
understand when there will only be one derivation and not two or more.

-- Martin