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petebecker@acm.org (Pete Becker) writes:

> llewelly wrote:
>> 
>> I'm unhappy with the bit in in n1496 about syntax. Specifically:
>> 
>>     # There are three possible approaches to specifying which names in
>>     # a translation unit refer to entities with shared linkage. First,
>>     # names with external linkage can be non-shared by default, and the
>>     # programmer would have to explicitly identify names that are to
>>     # have shared linkage. This is the model that Windows programmers
>>     # are familiar with. Second, names with external linkage can be
>>     # shared by default, and the programmer would have to explicitly
>>     # identify names that are not to have shared linkage. This is
>>     # similar to the model that UNIX programmers are familiar
>>     # with. Third, it can be implementation-defined which of the two
>>     # preceeding models applies. This minimizes the required changes to
>>     # existing code.
>> 
>> I'm unhappy with the first model because it seems to break all
>>     existing unix code that makes use of shared libraries.
>
> It doesn't break anything. It means that such code wouldn't be portable.
> It's not portable today, so that's no change.

I am sorry, but these two statements make no sense to me. Could you
    please rephrase?

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