------- Comment #35 from geoffk at geoffk dot org 2007-11-05 02:47 ------- Subject: Re: [4.3 Regression] typeinfo name referenced in ... defined in discarded section
On 04/11/2007, at 4:22 PM, hjl at lucon dot org wrote: > ------- Comment #33 from hjl at lucon dot org 2007-11-05 00:22 > ------- > (In reply to comment #32) >> >> What if you want to reference this string from somewhere that should >> never be discarded, like a global variable? >> > > Since the string is local, that global variable is defined in > the same file as the string. You should put the global variable > in a section which belongs to the same comdat group as the local > string. - What if the global variable references two or more strings? - Won't this cause the global variable to be discarded if anyone defines a different global variable which also references the same string? -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33871