Re: [Tinycc-devel] Weak symbols, take 1

[grischka]

Manuel Simoni wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've pushed a small patch that enables weak function symbols:
>
> http://repo.or.cz/w/tinycc.git/commitdiff/95b9a477b6743004e0e9bf728b25bf63d2908777?hp=d63ec6f20dc7e29e266589458ea90fb56f8c86ea
>
> As an example, examples/ex_weak.c uses a function declared as weak
> (from examples/weak_f.c).
> Before this patch, compiling ex_weak.c without weak_f.c before it
> results in an undefined symbol error.
> With this patch, it works as expected.
>
> However, it doesn't work for variables, only functions. Any pointers?
>
> Furthermore it crashes the test suite:

Data symbols don't have type.ref set.  That's likely why it crashes
and wouldn't work anyway.

I know that the dllimport attribute works for data.

--- grischka