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Diffstat (limited to 'gcc/doc/plugins.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | gcc/doc/plugins.texi | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/gcc/doc/plugins.texi b/gcc/doc/plugins.texi index 77000fe..5a56042 100644 --- a/gcc/doc/plugins.texi +++ b/gcc/doc/plugins.texi @@ -50,8 +50,10 @@ fatal error: plugin <name> is not licensed under a GPL-compatible license compilation terminated @end smallexample -The type of the symbol is irrelevant. The compiler merely asserts that -it exists in the global scope. Something like this is enough: +The declared type of the symbol should be int, to match a forward declaration +in @file{gcc-plugin.h} that suppresses C++ mangling. It does not need to be in +any allocated section, though. The compiler merely asserts that +the symbol exists in the global scope. Something like this is enough: @smallexample int plugin_is_GPL_compatible; |