ODR violation for std::cout etc.

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Paolo Carlini <pcarlini@suse.de> writes:

| Michael Veksler wrote:
| 
| > What do you think?
| 
| I think that the "current" solution is very, very old, and "heaven"
| knows how many others didn't work at the time on some "exotic"
| platforms. I would suggest filing a PR and CCing Benjamin.

The "current" situation was "the best" compromise we arrived at in the
very old days of GCC-3.x.x -- see the archive for discussions.

I'd suspect that nowadays we have better ways of handling the
issues -- though I've not done any new investigation.

-- Gaby