Ben Pfaff wrote: > Is it safe to use an external function that is only defined in a > separate translation unit? For example, to define an empty > function in a source file all by itself, then use a call to it as > a barrier.
With more and more optimisations being pushed into the linker, this doesn't look safe for the long term. > (Are there compilers or linkers that do inter-module optimization?) GCC 4.0 already does, when you pass several source files together on the command line, and specify the option '-combine'. Bruno
