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From: "Conrad Scott" <Conrad DOT Scott AT dsl DOT pipex DOT com>
To: <cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: -fno-rtti
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 21:32:14 +0100
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Is there any strong reason currently to use the -fno-rtti flag in
building the cygwin DLL?  AFAICT from the archives, the reasons
have been to do with executable size.  From a quick test, it seems
to make no more than a small difference in the size of the DLL
(less than 1%) and doesn't seem to change the run-time size of
objects (tho' this wasn't a very scientific test).  Also, the DLL
seems to work fine when compiled with rtti.

The main reason for asking (other than my usual simple minded
curiosity) is that I would like to use dynamic_cast in some
cygserver code I'm writing.  If the decision is to keep
the -fno-rtti flag for the DLL, I can build the objects for the
cygserver executable with rtti (which I'm assuming wouldn't be a
problem), but given the intertwining of the code base, it might be
"cleaner" to compile it all up with the same set of flags.

// Conrad