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Re: Fix notice_global_symbol
> On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 12:32:18PM +0200, Jan Hubicka wrote:
> > notice_global_symbol tests whether someone else can define same symbol
> > same way and not get linker error, while binds_local_p tests whether
> > someone else can overwrite the given symbol.
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> Ah. I guess there's not a good match then.
Still there is problem on whether we want to allow global symbol
overwriting in C++. WHen allowed, we theoretically can get match on
GLOBAL_* that is definitly not wanted, so perhaps we should look only
for symbols currently passing notice_global_symbol tests byt still being
binds_local_p, that is very small set of symbols for PIC...
Nice would be to relax binds_local_p :) as C++ mandates quite strong
assumptions about symbol sharing.
Honza
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