commctrl.h: Add WC_STATIC
Felix Nawothnig
felix.nawothnig at t-online.de
Tue Jul 12 11:16:32 CDT 2005
Mike McCormack wrote:
>> I'm curious, what is the reason for the special case handling for MSVC
>> and GCC when we have to do the portable way anyway?
> I can see two reasons:
>
> * The portable way adds a (non-standard) symbol.
This could be fixed by adding a _ prefix.
> * The static string declaration may not be discarded by some compilers,
> so it may needlessly increase the size of our binaries.
Unless MSVC or GCC do not do this optimization (and I'm sure both do)
this is no argument.
Actually those 2 non-standard ways put additional burden on the
optimizer - if one of those wide string literals is used multiple times
the optimizer has to make sure that the compiler doesn't generate a copy
for each reference (and I'm not so sure if GCC / MSVC do this,
especially since writeable strings (yea, it's const but still) were only
recently forbidden by GCC and I guess they are allowed in MSVC).
Felix
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