On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 01:36:46AM +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: > So, -concretely- what happens to a class S (e.g. associated type info object > address, address of member functions, etc.) with external linkage, > defined in multiple translation units, with say hidden visibility?
Well, there are the C++ rules, and then there are the ELF rules. At the object code level we have only symbol definitions (corresponding to the addresses of member functions, virtual tables, and typeinfo). If the relevant symbols are hidden, then it's as if they aren't there, so we can violate the one-definition rule. We can have two distinct classes named S, and no one can tell. Each bit of code will see one definition of S.
