V3 static data in classes vs AIX

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jun  4, 2001, David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com> wrote:

> 	My concern about your changes is how this will work with other
> Free Software designed to be compiled by G++.  If the storage is allocated
> and merged on GNU/Linux, but not on AIX, then many Free Software
> applications making that assumption and compiled for AIX will not work.

It's not an AIX-only thing.  The same problem affects (or at least
used to affect) IRIX and Tru64.  Of course, people who only run
GNU/Linux won't ever know about the problem on other systems and the
need for explicit instantiation unless someone educates them about it.

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