static data member problem

[Mark E.]

> Alexandre Oliva (oliva@dcc.unicamp.br)
> 
> Another solution would be to write the assembly
> code (text) of the ``weak'' definitions into the object file, in a way
> that collect2 could extract it, generate a single assembly file
> containing all the weak definitions, assemble it and link it together
> with the other object files.
> 

Sounds kind of like the "in the future" paragraph in the gcc 
documentation:

 A future version of g++ will support a hybrid model whereby the 
compiler will emit any instantiations for which the template 
definition is included in the compile, and store template 
definitions and instantiation context information into the object file 
for the rest.

The link wrapper will extract that information as necessary and 
invoke the compiler to produce the remaining instantiations.  The 
linker will then combine duplicate instantiations.

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At any rate, I sincerely hope something is worked out for those of 
using non-ELF formats.

Mark

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