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Are people really against using function pointers for this?<BR>
Either changing the interface to have function pointer variables (I'm not sure Modula-3 allows this, but in C you can fairly transparently replace functions with function pointers; client code just keeps working; it breaks down in C++ with overloading), or having a set of functions that just call/jump through function pointers? There would be no if, no conditional branches.<BR>
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Dynamic linking on Windows always goes through function pointers already.<BR>
So while yes it adds another instruction, it is already never getting inlined.<BR>
Don't other platforms do that too?<BR>
Or they patch every call site?<BR>
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I'm not sure otherwise of a simple method.<BR>
Easiest might be to have a parallel directory structure to m3core, with just m3core files.<BR>
That would wastefully rebuild all of m3core a second time, for just a small amount of variation.<BR>
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I think function pointers are the way to go here.<BR>
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- Jay<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR></body>
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