------- Additional Comments From bangerth at dealii dot org 2004-11-02 01:53 ------- This point has been discussed in a number of PRs already. I maintain my position that gcc could invoke the as-if rule to give these functions internal linkage if they aren't taken as template parameters. Since there is no user-visible effect, this is well within the allowed range, and it would save us from a good number of the problems we've had over time with mangling of symbol names in anonymous namespaces. W.
-- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18267
