[Issue 9655] Two functions with identical implementations are allowed to have the same address

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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9655

--- Comment #10 from yebblies <yebblies at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to bearophile_hugs from comment #9)
> (In reply to yebblies from comment #7)
> 
> > No, you shouldn't rely on this ever.
> 
> Why?

Because in D it's specified that the functions may not have distinct addresses.

> I think the C standard requires those functions to have different
> addresses. So I think that C code is correct. (And indeed as far as I know
> GCC replaces equal function implementations with a jump, to keep addressed
> distinct).

In a language without templates, code folding is much less useful.

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