On 28 August 2012 18:29, Mike Stump wrote: > On Aug 27, 2012, at 10:15 AM, Jonathan Wakely wrote: >> Unless anyone has objections I'm going to commit this to trunk, > >> implementing Sebastian's idea to disable the verbose terminate handler >> and the "pure virtual function called" message, which write to stderr >> when a process terminates. This allows embedded systems to avoid >> pulling in the demangler and I/O code, reducing the footprint of >> libstdc++. > > So, I was thinking about this a little... Native compilers usually want the > pretty verbose stuff and can usually pay the price. Cross compilers as a > class, are less able to pay the price. Maybe we want to default based merely > on target != host? I know in my cross compiler, I think I'd rather turn it > off. Not a bug point... but I thought I'd mention it.
That sounds sensible to me, but I don't have nearly enough experience of using cross-compilers to make that call. I'd have no problem with anyone making that change after the patch goes in (assuming it goes in.)
