Re: [arm-gnu] Tons of seemly extraneous code linked in c++ program

[James <jamessteward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2011-05-29 at 09:31 +0200, Freddie Chopin wrote:
> On 2011-05-29 07:06, Gene Smith wrote:
> > Basically, I guess I don't understand the relation between inline ctor
> > or dtor functions and whether an object can be created with new and
> > removed with delete.
> 
> A bit off-topin...
> 
> Library "new" uses exceptions, so that pulls like 60kB of 
> exception-handling code. Also the switch -fno-exceptions makes little 
> difference, because the code from stdlibc++ is already compiled and it 
> DOES use exceptions - any "standard" code and you have 
> exception-handling enabled anyway. Recompiling the library helps (;

Rewrite the code in C?

I really wonder about the logic behind the use of C++ in small embedded
devices.

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JS