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Re: ld --wrap and c++


On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 11:06:44AM -0400, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Jeff Baker <jbaker@qnx.com> writes:
> 
> > We have a customer complaining that the --wrap option to ld (again,
> > 2.12.1) doesn't work with C++.  Would I be correct in assuming that
> > this is because of the C++ name mangling?  If so, is there anything
> > (other than extern "C") that they can do to make it work?
> 
> --wrap should work fine with C++.  However, you do have to mangle the
> names yourself, and use --wrap with the mangled name.
> 
> There is no real alternative.  It is not practical for the linker to
> incorporate a C++ mangler, particularly as different compilers, even
> different versions of g++, use different mangling schemes.

Linker does support C++ prototype in version script.


H.J.


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