Re: multiple definitions of 'xxx keyed to...' in egcs-1.1.1

[hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu)]

> 
> > Do 'D' and 'I' have to be global?
> 
> I'm not sure. As you've found, they don't have to be for ELF. I don't
> know what the rationale was for making them global; it seems this
> knowledge is lost...
> 

collect2 is used for globcl ctors/dtors on some systems.

> > I am not sure if we should worry about anonymous namespaces. What
> > will happen when 2 anonymous namespaces have the same name?
> 
> Bad things. Anonymous namespaces allow you to put
> 
> namespace{
>   int dummy;
> }
> 
> into a header file, and you should get a different variable in each
> object file. More importantly, you can do
> 
> namespace{
>   class Handle{
>     Handle(){}
>   };
> }
> 
> in an implementation and expect that it won't clash with somebody
> else's Handle class. If the two anonymous namespaces have the same
> name, you'll get a clash.

How about we use

	machinename+pid+filename+strftime+staticcounter+randomstuff

The possiblility for clash should be very low. I'd like to see it
be fixed in egcs 1.1.2. If not, I will fix it in egcs 1.1.2/Linux.

Thanks.


-- 
H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)