On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 02:48:35AM +0100, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote: > > Isn't a compiler option -fglobalize-symbol also a form of source-level > > instrumentation? Either way, you need the source, and you get different > > code emitted. > > This isn't a source-level modification, by definition.
For some definition of definition. I, for one, do not like the idea of this extension at all. Seems to me that if you have the source, you might as well modify it. I see no particular reason to complicate things just to accomodate an aversion to using patch(3). r~