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Re: Does gdb support weak/normal symbols?
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 01:30:52PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 10:11:31AM -0800, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > "break foo" may be slightly different from "break FILE:LINE". For the
> > global symbol, foo, there will be only one definition. It is a
> > matter of picking the right foo for "break foo". There is no need to
> > set multiple breakpoints nor prompt user.
>
> This is wrong. You're still thinking about a compiler and a linker,
> not about a debugger. There may also be a dozen static functions named
> "foo", and one of them may happen to be in the current file and the
How can a static function be global?
H.J.