Proposed change: weak symbol support for Darwin
Mark Mitchell
mitchell@doubledemon.codesourcery.com
Wed Oct 15 01:23:00 GMT 2003
> The only reason I was reluctant to make the change globally was that
> on most platforms (e.g. Linux/x86) the current scheme ain't broke.
For right or wrong, the ABI requires that all vtables with external
linkage have "vague linkage". Therefore, I don't think we should change
the linkage of vtables on any platform, except those that don't have
proper support for weak/COMDAT/etc.
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Mark Mitchell <mitchell@doubledemon.codesourcery.com>
CodeSourcery, LLC
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