http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46097
--- Comment #24 from Jeffrey Walton <noloader at gmail dot com> 2010-10-22 01:59:34 UTC --- Hi Jonathan, (In reply to comment #16) > (In reply to comment #13) > > > > [SNIP] > > There are a number of options for making sure the global is private to the > library, thus avoiding multiple definitions of the same object when two copies > of the code are linked to. > > ... > > * You can put it in an anonymous namespace. Would namespaces be via dlmopen? (I've been trying to figure out how a c++ namespace could help, but I think I went down a rabbit hole). http://linux.die.net/include/dlfcn.h: /* Like `dlopen', but request object to be allocated in a new namespace. */ extern void *dlmopen (Lmid_t __nsid, __const char *__file, int __mode); Jeff
