KDE hackers, please read (was [nathan@codesourcery.com: Re: GCC 3.0.3: Bugs to Fix]) (fwd)

[Dirk Mueller]

On Die, 04 Dez 2001, Joe Buck wrote:

> But that causes an interesting problem.  You say that you don't want to
> use RTLD_GLOBAL because someone might duplicate a class name (say,
> "DisplayList").  Of course, this violates the one-definition rule, but
> let's ignore that for a moment.

Point taken for the RTLD_GLOBAL part, but why do we need RTLD_NOW in order 
to make RTTI work, as the original posting pointed out ?

I think lazy symbol resolving is the least thing an ABI should be capable of 
when living in the 21th century..


Dirk