* Win32 issues with Templates and Libs *

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

Walter Bright wrote:

> kris wrote:
>> Would you perhaps explain why ELF does not have this problem? Thanks
> 
> The ar format doesn't care if there are multiple definitions of the same
> symbol. The linker just picks one (presumably the first one it finds)
> and pulls in that module along with whatever else happens to be in that
> module.

That's not entirely true. Symbols in ELF can be said to be either LOCAL,
GLOBAL or WEAK. The local ones are per module, the global ones you can only
have one of, whereas the weak ones you can have multiple of and one
(probably the first, depending on linker etc) is chosen.

IIRC

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