On 12/17/11 12:27 AM, Martin Nowak wrote:
We'd need the linker to do anything of this. Unreferenced symbols
should be outputted using
kind of vague linkage (multiobj partly does this).
I-reference-everything stuff link ModuleInfos
should only create weak references. This includes that localClasses
More concrete if we'd output weak defined symbols (null) for what is
referenced
by a ModuleInfo then the linker should not open further object files to
find a definition. But if another definition is linked in it will replace
the weak definition. The program would then need to skip the dummy
symbols (null)
at runtime.
I think it would be awesome to exploit weak symbols.
Andrei
