When compiling the runtime for iOS using `ldc-build-runtime` I get a lot of warnings looking like this:

ld: warning: direct access in function 'ltmp2' from file 'objects-unittest-debug/std/algorithm/comparison.o' to global weak symbol '__D3std3uni__T23switchUniformLowerBoundSQBl10functional__T9binaryFunVAyaa6_61203c3d2062VQta1_61VQBba1_62ZQBvTAxkTkZQDxFNaNbNiNfQskZm' from file 'objects-unittest-debug/std/algorithm/comparison.o' means the weak symbol cannot be overridden at runtime. This was likely caused by different translation units being compiled with different visibility settings.

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On Saturday, 11 January 2020 at 11:06:08 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> ld: warning: direct access in function 'ltmp2' from file 'objects-unittest-debug/std/algorithm/comparison.o' to global weak symbol [...]

Templated function instantiations aren't supposed to be weak and overridable at runtime (!); they are emitted with `weak_odr` LLVM linkage, meaning that only a single definition is kept when linking (and that it cannot be stripped even if unreferenced). LDC has a `-linkonce-templates` option to switch to `linkonce_odr` linkage which might be interesting for testing (only difference to weak_odr: unreferenced symbols can be stripped).

On 2020-01-12 13:16, kinke wrote:
> On Saturday, 11 January 2020 at 11:06:08 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> ld: warning: direct access in function 'ltmp2' from file 'objects-unittest-debug/std/algorithm/comparison.o' to global weak symbol [...]
> 
> Templated function instantiations aren't supposed to be weak and overridable at runtime (!); they are emitted with `weak_odr` LLVM linkage, meaning that only a single definition is kept when linking (and that it cannot be stripped even if unreferenced). LDC has a `-linkonce-templates` option to switch to `linkonce_odr` linkage which might be interesting for testing (only difference to weak_odr: unreferenced symbols can be stripped).

Not sure I understand. Are these warnings to be expected?

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On Wednesday, 15 January 2020 at 19:57:51 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> Not sure I understand. Are these warnings to be expected?

Nope, they are definitely unexpected, although most likely not really relevant at the moment either. You could try and see if recompiling either with `-linkonce-templates` or `-fvisibility=hidden` gets rid of them (for the latter, exclude the shared libs by setting the CMake var BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF).

On 2020-01-15 22:22, kinke wrote:

> Nope, they are definitely unexpected, although most likely not really relevant at the moment either. You could try and see if recompiling either with `-linkonce-templates` or `-fvisibility=hidden` gets rid of them (for the latter, exclude the shared libs by setting the CMake var BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF).

`-linkonce-templates` gave a bunch of linker errors (missing symbols, see below). `-fvisibility=hidden` worked, thanks.




__D4core10checkedint__T4adduZQgFNaNbNiNfmmKbZm", referenced from:

__D4core8demangle__T8DemangleTSQBcQBa15reencodeMangledFNaNbNfAxaZ12PrependHooksZQCi12decodeNumberMFNaNfQBqZm in demangle.o

__D4core8demangle__T8DemangleTSQBcQBa7NoHooksZQBa12decodeNumberMFNaNfAxaZm in demangle.o

__D2rt8lifetime21__setArrayAllocLengthFNaNbKS4core6memory8BlkInfo_mbxC8TypeInfomZb in lifetime.o

__D2rt8lifetime12__arrayAllocFNaNbmxC8TypeInfoxQlZS4core6memory8BlkInfo_ in lifetime.o

__D2rt8lifetime12__arrayAllocFmKS4core6memory8BlkInfo_xC8TypeInfoxQlZQBl in lifetime.o

__D2rt4util9container5array__T5ArrayTS4core2gc11gcinterface4RootZQBj__T10insertBackZQnMFNbNiQCdZv in array.o

__D2rt4util9container5array__T5ArrayTS4core2gc11gcinterface5RangeZQBk__T10insertBackZQnMFNbNiQCeZv in array.o

And a bunch more.

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/Jacob Carlborg