[cxx-abi-dev] Mangling of string literals versus variadic templates

[David Vandevoorde]

On Dec 17, 2013, at 2:57 PM, John McCall <rjmccall at apple.com> wrote:

> On Dec 17, 2013, at 11:12 AM, David Vandevoorde <daveed at edg.com> wrote:
>> On Dec 16, 2013, at 8:33 PM, John McCall <rjmccall at apple.com> wrote:
>>> On Dec 16, 2013, at 5:10 PM, Richard Smith <richardsmith at google.com> wrote:
>>>> Consider:
>>> 
>>> Remind me why it’s impossible to go back to the committee and repeatedly weaken any remaining guarantees about string literal addresses until none of this is important?
>> 
>> I don't know if it's impossible or not, but I suspect it would be controversial.  (I, at least, would be opposed.)
> 
> Really?  You feel that having really strong guarantees about the address of a string literal is the right thing to do?  Like, it’s worth significantly increasing build times, code size, and launch times over?

Yes.  I think it's worth a lot to make adding "inline" to a function definition have minimal impact on its semantics.

	Daveed