"John (Eljay) Love-Jensen" <eljay@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> As I understand it, the anonymous namespace has internal linkage... > > Sort of, but not really. If you look at your object code, you will see that > the symbols in the anonymous namespace have external linkage. (But the > symbol will be mangled with a different random prefix or suffix, or perhaps > some other unique-ifying technique.) The symbols have external linkage, but no other file may refer to them. So, in practice, they can be compiled as though they were file-level static, and that is what current versions of g++ do. Ian
