[C++-sig] Re: code generation problems

[David Abrahams]

David Abrahams wrote:
> David Abrahams wrote:
> 
>> Yes, but unless you have a good reason to think this is BPL-related, you
>> should take your problem elsewhere.  It's not that I'm unsympathetic,
>> but I don't think there's anything I can do to help you.
> 
> Except, of course, to Cc: a microsoft compiler engineer, who came back with:
> 
> There is a linker optimization that we do that describes some of the
> behavior he is describing.  He could try passing -opt:noref to the
> link.exe and see if the problem goes away.
> 
> So add "-sBUILD=<linkflags>-opt:noref" to the beginning of your bjam
> command-line and see what happens.

And then he said:

"Whoops, I told you the wrong option, it should have been -opt:noicf.
icf is short for identical comdat folding."

So add "-sBUILD=<linkflags>-opt:noicf"

HTH,
-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
http://www.boost-consulting.com