Re: weak attribute

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%shagadelic.org@localhost>]

I think it's ok, but does it generate the same assembly with gcc?

-- thorpej@iPhone

On Aug 16, 2008, at 5:33 PM, Gregory McGarry <greg%bitlynx.com@localhost> wrote:

> This change fixed shared libaries built with PCC.  It's not exactly  
> the same, but is it correct?
>
>
> Index: lib/libc/net/nsdispatch.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/src/lib/libc/net/nsdispatch.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.32
> diff -u -r1.32 nsdispatch.c
> --- lib/libc/net/nsdispatch.c   28 Apr 2008 20:23:00 -0000      1.32
> +++ lib/libc/net/nsdispatch.c   16 Aug 2008 23:55:34 -0000
> @@ -173,7 +173,7 @@
>  * Runtime determination of whether we are dynamically linked or not.
>  */
> #ifdef __ELF__
> -extern int                     _DYNAMIC __attribute__((__weak__));
> +extern int                     _DYNAMIC __weak_reference(_DYNAMIC);
> #define        is_dynamic()            (&_DYNAMIC != NULL)
> #else
> #define        is_dynamic()            (0)     /* don't bother -  
> switch to ELF!
> */