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Re: [Patch] libstdc++/19664
Benjamin Kosnik wrote:
>>I would appreciate that. Also, if you could contact people actually
>>involved with the visibility stuff, we are really in trouble for lack of
>>maintainers: that's whay I'm so scared by the prospect of punting until
>>we have also an extension to namespaces... :(
>>
>>
>Ok.
>
>I'm also a bit worried about this whole approach, and this feature in
>general. I wasn't paying much attention when the libsupc++ bits went in,
>to be honest. So.........
>
>
Same here. But the feature is already in widespread use, present in big
projects like KDE (you know that) and we have currently something
half-cooked that really doesn't work well at all when the library is
involved: there are lots of examples around, KDE disabling the feature
for some targets, etc.
>However, I think your plan for moving forward sounds completely
>reasonable.
>
>
Agreed: actually it's the *only* plan we have for now, I'm afraid.
Anyway, preparing the testcase will take me some time, because it's
special (you remember, a library must be prepared and linked during the
test): if, during this time you inform me that someone is actively
working on the attribute applied to namespaces I will dump the boring
patch, wait for the attribute and apply one-liner + testcase ;)
Paolo.