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Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 15:54:56 -0500
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From: Paul Derbyshire <pderbysh AT usa DOT net>
Subject: Re: Templates, namespaces
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At 02:21 AM 1/30/99 GMT, you wrote:
>I believe someone is/was working to get something similar to "weak"
>symbols in the COFF format used by djgpp, but I don't know the status
>of the project, nor do I know if it's feasible.

What is a weak symbol? One that the linker won't complain about if it's
duplicated? Won't that just get the code to compile while creating a biger
problem, namely massive code bloat from duplicate code?

As for feasible, of course it is feasible. If it can be done on Linux it
can be done on DOS, or any other platform, by the Church-Turing thesis.
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