[Bug c++/104631] New: Visibility of static member s yields duplicate symbols.

["max.sagebaum at scicomp dot uni-kl.de" <gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org>]

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=104631

            Bug ID: 104631
           Summary: Visibility of static member s yields duplicate
                    symbols.
           Product: gcc
           Version: unknown
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: c++
          Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org
          Reporter: max.sagebaum at scicomp dot uni-kl.de
  Target Milestone: ---

Created attachment 52488
  --> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=52488&action=edit
Small case for showing the bug.

We develop a header only library where we have a static structure member inside
of a class. We require that this static member is seen by all operations on
this class.

If our library is included with '-fvisibility=hidden' then we get multiple
symbols of the same static member. We tried to fix this by declaring the static
member with '__attribute__((visibility("default")))' but for members which are
structs this does not seem to work.

We created a simple example, that can reproduce the behavior. If the static
member is an 'int' then everything works. If this static member is a structure,
then there is a duplication of the symbols.

You can run the example with 'make T=2'. 'T=1' sets no hidden flag and 'T=3'
removes the hidden flag for the library.

The output should always be:
func: Pointer A<int>::counter: 0x404194
func: Pointer A<Inc>::counter.counter: 0x404198
main: Pointer A<int>::counter: 0x404194
main: Pointer A<Inc>::counter.counter: 0x404198
Counter value 'int': 1
Counter value 'Inc': 1

But with T=2 the output on our machines is:
func: Pointer A<int>::counter: 0x404194
func: Pointer A<Inc>::counter.counter: 0x7f9f69625050
main: Pointer A<int>::counter: 0x404194
main: Pointer A<Inc>::counter.counter: 0x404198
Counter value 'int': 1
Counter value 'Inc': 0

In the real world case the struct 'Inc' is very involved and uses nearly every
other structure in our library. We would be fine by changing the visibility of
our library to default but we could not detect any preprocessor variables, that
hint that the library is included with the hidden visibility. (That is
'-fvisibility=hidden -E -dM func.cpp' and '-E -dM func.cpp' yielded the same
results.)

I hope this is the correct place to submit this bug and ask the question about
the preprocessor macro.

System: Fedora  5.16.9-200.fc35.x86_64
g++: g++ (GCC) 11.2.1 20220127 (Red Hat 11.2.1-9)
ld: GNU ld version 2.37-10.fc35