July 10, 2005
1:35 p.m.
Christoph Ludwig <cludwig@cdc.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> writes:
I do not claim the 2 TUs test will cover all possible scenarios. I am not even sure this decision should be left to an automated test. Because if the test breaks for some reason then the user is left with a linker error that is time-consuming to track down.
However, at least by the usual hierarchy of values, the sort of runtime error that results from the current needless linking with C++ on ELF/Linux is even worse. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com