static data member problem

[Alexandre Oliva]

Jason Merrill <jason@cygnus.com> writes:

>>>>>> Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br> writes:

>> I believe it is the same problem that affects platforms that lack
>> ELF weak-symbols: static data members of template classes have to
>> be explicitly instantiated on them :-(

> Yes, but it's not a bug.  Them's the facts of life on such targets, unless
> you have a clever idea...

I'm not object-file expert (I'm not even a beginner :-), but, since we 
have collect2 on all platforms (don't we?), couldn't we arrange that
g++ writes some notes in the object files that collect2 can use to
instantiate the missing symbols at link time?

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Alexandre Oliva
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil