Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:14:28 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: size of a function in memory
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On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Erik Max Francis wrote:

> Nate Eldredge wrote:
> 
> > Be aware that this is not portable.  It depends fairly strongly on
> > GCC's
> > compiling conventions and may fail on other compilers, or even some
> > future version of GCC.  If it's for something like memory locking that
> > isn't portable anyway, though, this probably isn't much of an issue.
> 
> I can't imagine why anyone would need to know the size of a function
> unless they were already planning on doing something extremely
> nonportable.

True, but this could also break with a new release of GCC, and you
would hardly want your code be dependent on a compiler version.