Am Sun, 8 Apr 2012 19:14:22 -0700 schrieb "H. S. Teoh" <hst...@quickfur.ath.cx>:
> On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 10:59:26AM +1000, Daniel Murphy wrote: > > "Artur Skawina" <art.08...@gmail.com> wrote in message > > news:mailman.1480.1333900846.4860.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... > > > > > > Note that my point is just that the compiler needs to emit a dummy > > > so that the addresses remain unique, eg > > > > > > module.f!uint: > > > jmp module.f!int > > > > > > > Or use a nop slide before the start of the function. Since we're > > modifying the object file format anyway, it would be trivial for the > > compiler to mark functions which have their address taken as needing a > > unique address. > [...] > > Why is it so important to have unique addresses for functions? > > > T I would like to know that use case as well, especially since I learned coding with the "copy&paste code is bad" phrase. It just seems odd to me to expect any constant data/code to have unique addresses when they can be merged or overlapped. -- Marco
