From: snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com (Mark E.)
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Can't specify initial value for template static fields
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 17:06:27 GMT
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On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 15:43:11 +0200, you wrote:

>In article <199907131333 DOT NAA86480 AT out1 DOT ibm DOT net> you wrote:
>
>> Weak symbols. To finish the work, add one line in the gcc source to the 
>> DJGPP config files to let it know weak symbols are supported and re-
>> build.
>
>Just to get this into me poor head: weak symbol support for *COFF*?
>Not just for ELF? 

Correct. In the current 2.9.1 release, ELF supports weak symbols, COFF
doesn't. Current Binutils CVS (and later 2.10.0) also supports weak symbols
for COFF along with ELF.

BTW, if I remember correctly, the old Borland C++ 4.0 used COFF and
supported weak symbols.

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