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Re: weak for Darwin

From: Matt Austern <austern at apple dot com>
To: Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz at redhat dot com>
Cc: libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, gkeating at apple dot com (Geoffrey Keating)
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 11:22:00 -0800
Subject: Re: weak for Darwin
References: <20041026060731.4F9AE1B4B330@geoffk5.apple.com> <20041101125616.4827ec67.bkoz@redhat.com>

On Nov 1, 2004, at 10:56 AM, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:

There is, however, a complication.  The Darwin loader doesn't really
handle weak symbols, or symbol overriding of any kind, unless you use
flat namespaces.  After the afore-mentioned discussion, we concluded
that the best thing would be if the Darwin loader did handle this, and
it's planned to be implemented (you'll note that the magic words
"implemented now" did not appear in that sentence).


Why hack up the FSF sources for this? Couldn't you just keep this on
your vendor branch?


I don't see a good reason for that.  Darwin is a supported OS, so the
mainline compiler should be made to work well on Darwin.

--Matt

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