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From: David Greene <greened@eecs.umich.edu>
To: Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com>
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Template Instantiation
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 09:08:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980209102754.1030E-100000@drakh.eecs.umich.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199802090242.SAA05477@atrus.synopsys.com>

On Sun, 8 Feb 1998, Joe Buck wrote:
 
> > Can someone clarify exactly how template instantiation
> > works in egcs?  I'm using x86/Linux/ELF and SPARC/Solaris 
> > systems.  
> 
> On both of these systems, it works pretty much like it does with Borland
> C++.  All needed templates are instantiated in each object file, but
> weak symbols are used.  At link time, one weak symbol is used as the
> definition.  If you have a recent GNU ld, the duplicate definitions, if
> any, get stripped out and are not included in the binary.  If you have
> an older linker or are using the Solaris linker, everything works, but
> your executable may contain extra copies of some functions.

This just does not work at all:

CXXFLAGS = -DDEBUG=0 -DLINUX_LIBC6 -pipe -frtti -Wno-reorder \
-Wno-unused 

I get lots and lots of undefined symbols, all of them from
templates.  I create a library with

ar -r libblah <lots of .o files here>
ranlib libblah

I know that ranlib is not realy necessary, but it shouldn't hurt
anything.  Perhaps the template code does not get generated, though 
from your passage above, I gather that it should have been generated 
when the .o files were created.  Is this true?

My system stats:

>>-drakh-> uname -a
Linux drakh.eecs.umich.edu 2.0.33 #1 Mon Feb 2 17:39:49 EST 1998 i686
unknown

>>-drakh-> g++ -v
Reading specs from
/nfs/srvrdsk1.eecs.umich.edu/t/Install/i686/Linux/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/egcs-2.90.23/specs
gcc version egcs-2.90.23 980102 (egcs-1.0.1 release)

>>-drakh-> ar --version
GNU ar 980114
Copyright 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no warranty.

>>-drakh-> ld --version
GNU ld 2.8.2
Copyright 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no warranty.
  Supported emulations:
   elf_i386
   i386linux

What am I doing wrong?

                                       -Dave


  reply	other threads:[~1998-02-09  9:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-02-08 11:38 David Greene
1998-02-08 18:44 ` Joe Buck
1998-02-09  9:08   ` David Greene [this message]
1998-02-09 11:54     ` Joe Buck
1998-02-09 11:54       ` David Greene

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