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From: LIU Hao <lh_mouse@126.com>
To: Richard Biener <richard.guenther@gmail.com>,
	Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, Jonathan Yong <10walls@gmail.com>,
	Jan Hubicka <hubicka@ucw.cz>, Nathan Sidwell <nathan@acm.org>
Subject: Re: libgcov, fork, and mingw (and other targets without the full POSIX set)
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2023 17:23:53 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9fad1568-cb0c-4985-bc07-34f32c454503@126.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFiYyc08h-jgE8=cOPGnP9NUVNtbr1EtES8TF1=cqrmentErSA@mail.gmail.com>


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在 2023/12/1 17:09, Richard Biener via Gcc 写道:
> Hmm, so why's it then referenced and not "GCed"?
> 
> The classical "solution" is to make the reference weak via sth like
> 
> extern typeof(fork) fork () __attribute__((weak));

There are issues about weak symbols on mingw targets. Calls to weak functions can jump to random, 
non-allocated memory and cause faults. Instead, duplicates of COMDAT sections are removed by the 
`.linkonce discard` directive.


-- 
Best regards,
LIU Hao


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  reply	other threads:[~2023-12-01  9:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-01  8:02 Florian Weimer
2023-12-01  8:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-01  9:00   ` LIU Hao
2023-12-01  9:16     ` Alexander Monakov
2023-12-01  8:42 ` Richard Biener
2023-12-01  8:57   ` Florian Weimer
2023-12-01  9:09     ` Richard Biener
2023-12-01  9:23       ` LIU Hao [this message]
2023-12-01  9:23       ` Alexander Monakov
2023-12-01 10:48       ` Andreas Schwab
2023-12-01 12:03         ` Jan Hubicka
2023-12-01 12:09           ` Jakub Jelinek
2023-12-07 12:50             ` Mark Wielaard
2023-12-08 13:59               ` Florian Weimer
2023-12-10  9:27                 ` LIU Hao
2023-12-11  6:48                   ` Florian Weimer
2023-12-08  8:53 Julian Waters
2023-12-11 12:38 Julian Waters

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