Re: Dispatch of GObject virtual functions in GtkMM

[Daniel Elstner <daniel kitta googlemail com>]

Am Montag, den 29.01.2007, 10:16 +0100 schrieb Murray Cumming:
> On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 20:09 +0100, Daniel Elstner wrote:
> > In my opinion functions like Gtk::manage<>() should have been declared
> > inline in the first place, but unfortunately we can't do that now
> > without breaking ABI.  (Well, unless one uses some trickery to always
> > include the definition of the inline function when compiling the library
> > itself, but...)
> 
> Such ABI breaks are possible for the optional API used by embedded
> devices. I believe that's what Matt is interested in.
> 
> But inlining could increase code size, so there may be a tradeoff choice
> to make.

I was specifically referring to those cases where inlining *decreases*
code size.  This is not that rare, actually.  Not to mention that there
would be fewer dynamic symbols to resolve in the library (not relevant
for Gtk::manage<>(), but for many other one-liners in *mm).

--Daniel