Re: symtab.h: why so many function bodies

[John W. Eaton]

On 02/24/2016 12:24 PM, Rik wrote:

>  My guess is that the the linker symbol
> table is crowded with a bunch of functions that are never called outside
> of a single translation unit (static file scope). This increases the
> sizes of the object files and probably makes the linker work a bit
> harder to read, but never use, these definitions.

If that's true, then I think just making those functions static (if they 
are just plain old functions) should be sufficient.

For member functions of a class that has a public interface, I think 
visibility would need to be defined for functions that are not actually 
needed outside of a single file.  But we currently only tag entire 
classes, not individual methods (if that is even possible, I haven't 
checked).

jwe