http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43601
--- Comment #48 from Vadim Zeitlin <vz-gcc at zeitlins dot org> 2010-10-14 17:29:46 UTC --- (In reply to comment #47) > One should note that GCC's implementation of PCH is way different from > MSVC's. > So comparing with PCH is not the correct thing to do really. I understand this in theory but in practice nobody uses MSVC without PCH (and I guess by now most people use PCH with gcc as well but this doesn't change anything here, of course, as after this change gcc is unusable, with or without PCH). Anyhow, notice that MSVC still manages to produce correctly-sized DLLs even without using PCH. And in any case while comparing with MSVC may be interesting, surely the most urgent goal is to fix gcc to actually work and not to make it more similar to MSVC at the price of breaking it completely? I just can't wrap my head around your arguments, everything you say may be correct (except comment 6) but how do you deduce from it that the current situation is fine and don't even want to acknowledge this change for a bug and regression that it is is beyond me.
