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@@ -207,14 +207,24 @@
redefining them will only affect inline functions and template
instantiations which are compiled in user code. This allows annotation
of templates such as <code>shared_ptr</code>, but not code which is
- only instantiated in the library.
- In order to annotate <code>basic_string</code> reference counting it
- is necessary to disable extern templates (by defining
- <code>_GLIBCXX_EXTERN_TEMPLATE=-1</code>) or to rebuild the
- <code>.so</code> file.
+ only instantiated in the library. Code which is only instantiated in
+ the library needs to be recompiled with the annotation macros defined.
+ That can be done by rebuilding the entire
+ <filename class="libraryfile">libstdc++.so</filename> file but a simpler
+ alternative exists for ELF platforms such as GNU/Linux, because ELF
+ symbol interposition allows symbols defined in the shared library to be
+ overridden by symbols with the same name that appear earlier in the
+ runtime search path. This means you only need to recompile the functions
+ that are affected by the annotation macros, which can be done by
+ recompiling individual files.
+ Annotating <code>std::string</code> and <code>std::wstring</code>
+ reference counting can be done by disabling extern templates (by defining
+ <code>_GLIBCXX_EXTERN_TEMPLATE=-1</code>) or by rebuilding the
+ <filename>src/string-inst.cc</filename> file.
Annotating the remaining atomic operations (at the time of writing these
- are in <code>ios_base::Init::~Init</code>, <code>locale::_Impl</code> and
- <code>locale::facet</code>) requires rebuilding the <code>.so</code> file.
+ are in <code>ios_base::Init::~Init</code>, <code>locale::_Impl</code>,
+ <code>locale::facet</code> and <code>thread::_M_start_thread</code>)
+ requires rebuilding the relevant source files.
</para>
<para>
2012-01-06 Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com> PR libstdc++/51504 * doc/xml/manual/debug.xml: Suggest using symbol interposition to override symbols using annotation macros. committed to trunk