Vtable index type
Mark Mitchell
mark at codesourcery.com
Mon Feb 21 22:15:29 UTC 2000
We should specify a type for vtable indices. It seems to me that
`ptrdiff_t' is the obvious candidate.
This is important in that it limits the number of vtable entries we
can use. (For example, g++ has historically used `short' for a vtable
index; that limited the size of vtables.)
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