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Re: [libstdc++][patch] Move __stl_prime_list out of a header file
Paolo Carlini <paolo.carlini@oracle.com> writes:
> Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>> Do you see any problems with this patch other than the new exported
>> symbol?
>>
> By the way, the symbol is of course not exported correctly anyway, is
> exported at 3.4.10 instead of the last version. If you can just avoid
> exporting anything, like use the weak attribute, I have nothing against
> the idea.
Even a weak symbol is exported in a sense. However, this does suggest
an alternative approach, which would be to keep the array in the header
file but to use something along the lines of
__attribute__ ((section (".gnu.linkonce.r.__stl_prime_list"), weak))
Ian