__declspec(selectany)

[Boaz Harrosh]

Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:

>On August 6, 2003 01:14 am, Dan Kegel wrote:
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>>I looked at
>>http://cvs.winehq.com/cvsweb/wine/tools/winegcc.c?rev=1.16
>>and see you don't have
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>>#define selectany weak
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>That's right, it doesn't.
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>>Think winegcc should do -Dselectany=weak?
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>I don't know -- it's easy enough to add, but it's also
>quite dangerous it seems. It would seem that a gcc
>patch to teach it to recognize selectany as an attribute
>is the way to go. I think people that need selectany to
>work should explicitly define it, so they are aware of
>the potential problems, no?
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Thank you all for the help. It works like charm. ( needed both defines )

I agree with Dimitrie. “selectany” should only be defined on a “per 
project”. In the MS compiler it is only reserved when used inside a 
declspec . It can freely be used as an Identifier. So is weak in GCC. 
Above define will break that.

Save from a GCC patch, the only right solution is to enhance winemaker, 
so just as it changes the #pragma( pack ) things it can also change the 
__declespec( selectany ) to something like __declespec__selectany__ and 
now a global define is less dangerous.



Sorry for the late response, the time difference, when you type a way I 
was already in the pub.