Re: [Haskell-cafe] Ghci dynamic linking (Was: C++ libraries and GHCI)

Thanks for the reply, Max. If it's not something overly complex, I'll try to hack ghc to see if I can produce a working patch... probably that symbol type can be safely ignored by ghci linker. Thanks again for your help Paolo On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Max Bolingbroke <batterseapower@hotmail.com> wrote:

(Moving to ghc-users)

I'd never seen V in nm output before:

""" The symbol is a weak object.  When a weak defined symbol is linked with a normal defined symbol, the normal defined symbol is used with no error.  When a weak undefined symbol is linked and the symbol is not defined, the value of the  weak symbol becomes zero with no error.  On some systems, uppercase indicates that a default value has been specified. """"