Ben Grasset <operato...@gmail.com> schrieb am Mo., 15. Juli 2019, 22:57:
> On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 9:02 PM Sven Barth via fpc-devel < > fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org> wrote: > >> Not necessarily. If you have two units that don't know about each other >> that specialize the function with the same enum then you'd have two >> specializations already. >> > > Surely that only applies to what winds up in the PPUs for the units in > question, if anything, though? As opposed to the object files and the final > executable. Like, I don't see how it could possibly be the case that if two > / three / four / e.t.c units all use Generics.Collections, and each one > contains an instance of something like: > > var IntList: TList<LongInt> > > that this means the resulting binary contains two / three / four / > e.t.c separate complete instantiations of TList for LongInt. You'd wind up > with executables in the literal hundreds-of-megabytes range if that were > so, even with optimizations / symbol stripping and so on activated. > That is exactly what is happening if you have a specialization in multiple units that don't know about each other. Regards, Sven >
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