Another weird sparc solaris 2.8 compiler error

Thu Feb 1 14:50:00 GMT 2001

>>>>> "Bryce" == Bryce McKinlay <bryce@albatross.co.nz> writes:

Bryce> I have no idea why the alias is needed, though. It appears to
Bryce> work fine for me to simply replace that line with "extern int
Bryce> _ZN5Hello6class$E;". Does anyone know why it was done this way?
Not me. It might be a historical relic of how this program was
implemented at some point. I think changing it would be good, since
according to the manual __attribute((alias)) isn't supported on all
targets.
Tom