Re: Possible OS incompatibility with __attribute__ 'shared'

Basile Starynkevitch <[email protected]> Sun, 21 Dec 2025 22:46:48 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gcc.help
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 2025-12-21 at 21:32 +0000, [email protected] wrote:
> Hello. On the web page at https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.3.3/gcc/Variable-Attributes.html
> 
> I found this:
> int foo __attribute__((section ("shared"), shared)) = 0;
> 
> I got it to work (using MinGW GCC) in W98, but the same method did not work in Windows 7, even when restricted to 32-bit process interactions.


Current GCC is 15

(the 3.3 one was from 2005)

Regards

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