What I mean by symbol count is the nuembr of times the symbol shows up in the dump from all the object files. The symbol for a particular template function will show up in the output from each object file in which it is used. So if the example function above, template int Read( ), is only called from one place, its symbol count will be 1. If it is called from 100 different .cpp files in the application, however, its symbol count will be 100 and, as far as the compiler is concerned, it is a 100 times bigger deal. |