--- On Mon, 9/5/11, Andrey Semashev <andrey.semashev@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Andrey Semashev <andrey.semashev@gmail.com>
Quite the opposite, only DLLs don't support weak
symbols.
Are you saying that, say, on MacOS X or Solaris there is no need to do anything to export these symbols and the runtime linker will relocate them to a single instance? That's news to me.
It is actually correct for all ELF platforms that all modern operating systems use (yep... I don't consider windows modern system :-) ). There is some control depending on compiler on hiding symbols or not but generally there is no huge headache that exists on DLL platform (a.k.a. Windows) Artyom Beilis -------------- CppCMS - C++ Web Framework: http://cppcms.sf.net/ CppDB - C++ SQL Connectivity: http://cppcms.sf.net/sql/cppdb/