Jonathan Lennox wrote: > When optimization is turned on, and thus inline functions are actually > inlined, everything works fine. However, on Cygwin, when functions are not > inlined, I get link-time errors: the weak symbol emitted for the C++ code > conflicts with the backup definition. (This problem does not occur on > ELF-based systems, tested on GNU/Linux (RHEL 4) and Solaris 8.) > > Is this a gcc bug? No, I think it's just a fact of life that PE/COFF has no concept of weak symbol visibility in the way that ELF does. You may be able to find more details on this in the binutils mailing list archives, but I think it's a fundamental restriction of Windows. There might be a different kind of workaround involving dllexport-type trickery, but I don't know. Brian
