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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: avl tree - booch components
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"Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@home.com> writes:

> Having :
> 
> 	CVSID: constant String := "$Header$";
> 
> embedded strings of course, lets you identify what your binaries
> are built with -- an extremely useful tool for working with
> production level binaries.

I have done this with GNU C, but was disappointed to find that GNU C++
suppressed unreferenced static strings.

Also, there is a potential problem with headers (well, I guess all you
have to do is put the $Id$ inside the
  #ifndef _this_file_has_been_read_already_
 thing).