Force generation of an uncalled method?

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Force generation of an uncalled method?
\ stepleton (22 Feb 2008)
. \ Brian Dessent (22 Feb 2008)
. . \ stepleton (22 Feb 2008)
. \ Brian Dessent (22 Feb 2008)

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Subject:	Force generation of an uncalled method?
Group:	Gcc-help
From:	stepleton
Date:	22 Feb 2008

Greetings,

I hope this question isn't too elementary. I have a program that maintains
objects from a number of templated classes. When debugging, it is
particularly useful to print out information in one of these objects with
a method I've written---this method digests the information in the object
and prints it out in a useful way. So, if the program hits a snag, I'd
like to call this method within gdb, as in "p myobject.dumpInfo()".
Ordinarily the code will not use this method ever---it's only for me to
call in the debugger.

The problem is that I can't get g++ to generate code for this method
unless I actually call it in somewhere the code (in which case everything
works as intended). I've tried the "used" attribute in the declaration,
and optimization is already off. Is there any way to force this method to
be compiled?

Thanks,
--Tom
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