weak for Darwin

[Matt Austern]

On Nov 1, 2004, at 10:56 AM, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:

>
>> There is, however, a complication.  The Darwin loader doesn't really
>> handle weak symbols, or symbol overriding of any kind, unless you use
>> flat namespaces.  After the afore-mentioned discussion, we concluded
>> that the best thing would be if the Darwin loader did handle this, and
>> it's planned to be implemented (you'll note that the magic words
>> "implemented now" did not appear in that sentence).
>
> Why hack up the FSF sources for this? Couldn't you just keep this on
> your vendor branch?

I don't see a good reason for that.  Darwin is a supported OS, so the
mainline compiler should be made to work well on Darwin.

			--Matt