Re: Proposed change: weak symbol support for Darwin

[Matt Austern <austern at apple dot com>]

On Oct 13, 2003, at 5:46 PM, Andrew Pinski wrote:

> > How come nobody has complained about the fact that the Darwin 
> > compiler has a badly broken C++ implementation?  My guess is it's 
> > because most people don't use the Darwin compiler for C++; they use 
> > the Apple OS X compiler instead, which is based on the GNU Darwin 
> > compiler but which also includes Apple's local patches.  You see, the 
> > Darwin linker does provide this functionality.  It's not quite the 
> > same as GNU linkonce sections, but it's close enough; Apple calls it 
> > coalescing.
>
> Someone has complained, see PR 11026 <http://gcc.gnu.org/PR11026>.
> In fact someone at apple complained too, PR11384, 
> <http://gcc.gnu.org/PR11384>.
> Just since AIX, and other targets, have the same issue and there is an 
> FAQ about
> this problem some where no one has complained that much.

That makes me feel even less guilty than I did about calling this a bug 
fix.

			--Matt