Re: string debug-mode solutions

[Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at cs dot tamu dot edu>]

Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz@redhat.com> writes:

| Given that, there seem to be four options for proceeding.
| 
| a: punt, document that __gnu_debug::string preferred, reliable way
| b: document that for string, have to use -O1 or above
| c: document that for string, have to use -D_GLIBCXX_EXTERN_TEMPLATE=0
| d: fixup c++config so that -D_GLIBCXX_DEBUG automatically does c. This
| is the linkage that Doug intended when he was writing this sucker. The patch is
| simple, and is attached, but may only work for systems that support
| weak symbols.
| 
| My suggestion is to do d.
| 
| Thoughts?

optimizations should not change the semantics, so I think b is
disqualified.  If we have to do c, then we should go with d.  
Given the recurent issues with system with no weak symbol support I have
a preference for a, and looking for ways out of it.

-- Gaby