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Re: V3 static data in classes vs AIX
- To: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- Subject: Re: V3 static data in classes vs AIX
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Date: 05 Jun 2001 20:36:30 -0300
- Cc: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>, gdr at codesourcery dot com, bkoz at redhat dot com, libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <200106042211.SAA30454@makai.watson.ibm.com>
On Jun 4, 2001, David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com> wrote:
> My concern about your changes is how this will work with other
> Free Software designed to be compiled by G++. If the storage is allocated
> and merged on GNU/Linux, but not on AIX, then many Free Software
> applications making that assumption and compiled for AIX will not work.
It's not an AIX-only thing. The same problem affects (or at least
used to affect) IRIX and Tru64. Of course, people who only run
GNU/Linux won't ever know about the problem on other systems and the
need for explicit instantiation unless someone educates them about it.
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