On 08/01/2013 10:45 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 07:12:51PM +0200, John Colvin wrote:
On Thursday, 1 August 2013 at 17:09:07 UTC, JS wrote:
If I have a bunch of templates that are only used for code
generation, are they removed in the binary(since they are not
needed)?
templates don't exist in binaries.
Templates are like cookie molds, you use them to generate lots of
(almost) identical cookies, but you never serve the mold to the
customer. ;-)
T
I think the question is whether the instantiations of such templates are
removed. If the instance is used only to initialize an enum, the
function shouldn't stay in the binary.
Even if the function remains, I think the linker takes care of removing
unused functions.
Ali
