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From: Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>
To: Nathaniel Shead <nathanieloshead@gmail.com>, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Cc: Nathan Sidwell <nathan@acm.org>, Patrick Palka <ppalka@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] c++/modules: Prevent emission of really-extern vtables in importers [PR114229]
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2024 08:59:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <79dad146-1efb-433c-97f8-83997cc4b51f@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <65e7ddc4.170a0220.d647a.c749@mx.google.com>

On 3/5/24 22:06, Nathaniel Shead wrote:
> Bootstrapped and regtested on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, OK for trunk?
> 
> -- >8 --
> 
> Currently, reading a variable definition always marks that decl as
> DECL_NOT_REALLY_EXTERN, with anything else imported still being
> considered external. This is not sufficient for vtables, however; for an
> extern template, a vtable may be generated (and its definition emitted)
> but nonetheless the vtable should only be emitted in the TU where that
> template is actually instantiated.

Does the vtable go through import_export_decl?  I've been thinking that 
that function (and import_export_class) need to be more module-aware. 
Would it make sense to do that rather than stream DECL_NOT_REALLY_EXTERN?

Jason


  reply	other threads:[~2024-03-06 13:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-03-06  3:06 Nathaniel Shead
2024-03-06 13:59 ` Jason Merrill [this message]
2024-03-07 12:49   ` [PATCH v2] c++: Redetermine whether to write vtables on stream-in [PR114229] Nathaniel Shead
2024-03-07 20:24     ` Jason Merrill

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