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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Static functions
From:       Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira () kdemail ! net>
Date:       2004-02-16 13:21:27
Message-ID: 200402161021.28080.thiago.macieira () kdemail ! net
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Dirk Mueller wrote:
>On Monday 16 February 2004 09:43, Rolf Magnus wrote:
>> Making them static in the namespace additionally prevents their
>> symbols from being exported.
>
>Can you give me an example snippet so I can understand better what
> you're saying here?

I believe he means that

namespace MyFunctions
{
  void function();
}

is equivalent to
class MyFunctions
{
public:
  static void function();
};

However, if you add  "static" to the namespace above, the symbol won't 
be exported, which is impossible with a class. See my e-mails on this 
subject regarding the ELF headers (my readelf outputs).

PS: if anyone is wondering, the symbol mangling is different for the two 
functions above, at least with g++.

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