On 13/06/2010 23:22, David Brown wrote:
> I agree that banning common symbols is not a complete solution. But
> perhaps it may be a partial solution until some more complete solution
> is found and implemented?
>
> How about having a warning flag -Wcommon-lto
> Incidentally, the original poster used -fwhole-program. Is this
> conflict only an issue when the -fwhole-program flag is used? If that's
> the case, then the warning could be conditional on that flag too,
> meaning even rarer circumstances when false positives would be issued.
Yes; it's not really a problem that is related to common symbols at all,
it's basically to do with mixing LTO and non-LTO objects when -fwhole-program,
if I understand right.
cheers,
DaveK
