PR3042

[Mark Mitchell]

>>>>> "David" == David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com> writes:

>>>>> Mark Mitchell writes:

    Mark> Right now, the former does not allocate storage, while the
    Mark> latter does.  Under my poposal, neither would llocate
    Mark> storage.

    David> The application which includes the header allocates COMMON
    David> storage in the BSS section.  The library, which performs
    David> some explicit instantiations, allocates a STRONG symbol and
    David> storage in the data section.

    David> 	If there never was an explicit instantiation, the BSS
    David> storage allocation exists and would be used (which is
    David> exactly the sharing problem with default AIX linking
    David> semantics for shared libraries that is causing the errors).

Yes.  

That's consistent with what I said above, for the uninitialized case.
For the initialized case, I think that you will find that there is no
storage allocated whatsoever.

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