> Cary, please stop spreading the incorrect information. There is > at lease one GCC bug against protected symbol: > > https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55012 > > which was reported by other people.
OK, so it got reported once by someone else. But that bug was based on an incorrect understanding of protected visibility; the real problem there was the lack of diagnostic from the linker. -cary