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Re: weak for Darwin
- From: Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz at redhat dot com>
- To: gkeating at apple dot com (Geoffrey Keating)
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 12:56:16 -0600
- Subject: Re: weak for Darwin
- Organization: Red Hat / Chicago
- References: <20041026060731.4F9AE1B4B330@geoffk5.apple.com>
>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?
-benjamin