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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE hackers, please read (was [nathan@codesourcery.com: Re: GCC 3.0.3: Bugs to Fix]) (fwd)
From:       Dirk Mueller <dmuell () gmx ! net>
Date:       2001-12-05 0:35:51
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On Die, 04 Dez 2001, Joe Buck wrote:

> But that causes an interesting problem.  You say that you don't want to
> use RTLD_GLOBAL because someone might duplicate a class name (say,
> "DisplayList").  Of course, this violates the one-definition rule, but
> let's ignore that for a moment.

Point taken for the RTLD_GLOBAL part, but why do we need RTLD_NOW in order 
to make RTTI work, as the original posting pointed out ?

I think lazy symbol resolving is the least thing an ABI should be capable of 
when living in the 21th century..


Dirk

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