[RFC][PATCH] split kutils -> {kprintutils,kcmutils}

[Thiago Macieira]

On Wednesday 20 February 2008 13:29:35 Marc Mutz wrote:
> kutils is retained with a dummy.cpp, linking against both new libs, for
> compatibility with 4.0. This works on ELF, and 4.0 wasn't released on
> Windows and Mac, so it won't be a problem there. That leaves non-ELF Unix
> platforms. Does this trick work there, too?

I did an exhaustive test on all supported platforms for that when I moved 
QXmlStream* classes from QtXml to QtCore. Quoting my findings from Qt 4.4's 
qxmlstream.h:

// These platforms do not support symbol moving nor duplication
// (because duplicate symbols cause warnings when linking):
//   Apple MacOS X (Mach-O executable format)
//   IBM AIX (XCOFF executable format)
//
// These platforms do not support symbol moving but allow it to be duplicated:
//   Microsoft Windows (COFF PE executable format)
//      special case: Windows CE wasn't supported before 4.4.0
//
// These platforms support symbol moving:
//   HP HP-UX (PA-RISC2.0 shared executables)
//   HP HP-UXi (ELF executable format)
//   FreeBSD (ELF executable format)
//   Linux (ELF executable format)
//   SGI IRIX (ELF executable format)
//   Sun Solaris (ELF executable format)


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