Re: Help- selective symbol exposure after link

ok@cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
11 Feb 1997 22:25:24 -0500

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From: ok@cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 11 Feb 1997 22:25:24 -0500
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
References: 97-01-183 97-01-189 97-01-212 97-02-047
Keywords: linker, design

Dave Lloyd <Dave@occl-cam.demon.co.uk> writes:
>Name mangling in C++ is another
>example of the limitations in most linkers (what is wanted is a
>strong-typed linker).


Oh, like the one the B6700 had about 30 years ago?
(Type-safe linkage between Algol, Fortran, COBOL, &c.)
Dear old BINDER, how I miss it.


Is there any reason why an ELF/DWARF linker couldn't enforce type safety?
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Richard A. O'Keefe; http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/%7Eok; RMIT Comp.Sci.
[Hmmn, Dwarf puts in type info, doesn't it? Probably because too many C
programs get their types wrong. -John]


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