Re: weakref miscompiling libgfortran

[Andrew Pinski <pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu>]

On Dec 27, 2005, at 6:36 PM, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> It has nothing to do with libgfortran actually, libgfortran only ever
> uses the weak pthread function aliases within libgfortran.
> The reason why weakref attribute has been added is primarily libstdc++,
> see PR4372, because unlike libgfortran or libobjc, libstdc++ installed
> headers were using #pragma weak on all pthread_* functions it wanted
> to use.

But as mentioned the feature was not thought through.  It has not been 
tested
that well (or at all) with stuff like IMA or templates.

I still support a reverting of the weakref patch as it was put way too 
late
for 4.1 (stage 3 is not a good idea for a new feature).

-- Pinski