Re: Patches for egcs-971016 on AIX

[Andrey Slepuhin <pooh at msu dot ru>]

David Edelsohn wrote:
> >>>>> Andrey Slepuhin writes:
> Andrey> Sorry, I never thought about such possibility. What about additional
> Andrey> linker flag to disable automatic exports?> 
>         Should exporting all global symbols be enabled by default or
> disabled by default?  The option can toggle either way.

I prefer variant with symbols exported by default - this should cover most
cases.

> Andrey> And finally, what about
> Andrey> __eh_* symbols? They are global in *every* object file. If I create
> Andrey> a shared object from several object files, from which one these symbols
> Andrey> will be exported? Moreover, I will receive warnings when linking *any*
> Andrey> program, because these symbols are exported in libstdc++. Who can
> Andrey> imagine the situation when these symbols are really need to be exported?
> Andrey> So, I think I should exclude them from export list until I see such
> Andrey> situation.
> 
>         We need more input from Mike Stump and Joe Buck and others
> involved in the C++ exception handling to understand how these symbols are
> used, especially in the AIX environment, and then determine a template or
> regex for those that need to be exported.  If all global symbols are
> exported, isn't this moot, or are you going to export all symbols *except*
> those which may generate duplicate warnings?  The latter is wrong because
> most of those duplicate symbols specifically have a common name to be
> accessed by programmers to explicitly invoke ctors/dtors in a
> runtime-loaded library, for example.

I want to export all global symbols except those which may generate duplicate
warnings *and* never should be referenced outside the shared object. I think
this is correct. It would be nice if somebody can give precise description
of such symbols.

Andrey.