> On Mar 6, 2017, at 5:59 PM, Greg Parker <gpar...@apple.com> wrote: > > >> On Mar 6, 2017, at 5:48 PM, Philippe Hausler via swift-dev >> <swift-dev@swift.org> wrote: >> >> Is there a way to mark a function in swift (on Linux) to use the same >> emission strategy as weak declarations in c? >> >> I was to tinkering with some ideas on fixing some poor behavior in >> swift-corelibs-foundation and weak would potentially solve this specific >> case. >> >> For reference this is the syntax I am interested in (since it is a bit >> obscure) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak_symbol > > Weak definitions are expensive. What are you trying to do? >
I was trying to prototype some fixes for factory pattern initializers. The other strategy that I was considering was using hoisting of functions to init methods but that didn't seem to work with disparate types. This wasn't really intended to be a real solution but more so a proof of concept. > > -- > Greg Parker gpar...@apple.com Runtime Wrangler > >
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