On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:00:38PM -0800, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > > Another issue for scope encoding. C++ ABI: > > > > --- > > Occasionally entities in local scopes must be mangled too > > (e.g. because inlining or template compilation causes multiple > > translation units to require access to that entity). > > --- > > > > seems to imply that the local symbols may have external > > linkage. Am I wrong? > > You are wrong. When an inline function is expanded into multiple > translation units, and that inline function has a static variable, then > multiple translation units require access to the static variable. That > does not imply that the static variable has external linkage.
Does this mean that if you compiled some of those TUs with GCC, and some with icc, they might legitimately access different copies of the static variable? Seems odd. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery
