Re: [PATCH] Round-down years in "years+months" relative date view

[Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 21:00, Nicolas Pitre<nico@cam.org> wrote:
>> >> Microsoft's compiler and libraries? MacOSX?
>> >
>> > Are you saying you know those to be platforms with problems, or are you
>> > asking whether those platforms will have problems?
>>
>> Both: MS never had weak/vague linkage, but I don't know about MacOSX.
>
> This is not about weak or vague linkage.  This is plain basic linker
> feature where no library object needs to be linked if there is no symbol
> to resolve.

Maybe I missed something, but wasn't the idea to overwrite gettimeofday
with a public gettimeofday, defined in one of the object files?
And shouldn't a linker complain regarding duplicated symbols, unless
the other (library) symbol is defined as a weak symbol, allowing
overriding it with another symbol of stronger linkage?

>> I suspect them to have the same deficiency, but I'd be glad to be wrong.
>
> Are you able to test it?
>

Only the MS, but it is not interesting.