anonymous namespaces and local versus global symbol

[Tom Kacvinsky]

I have a C++ method wrapped in a namespace.  What I have noticed is if
there is an anonymous namespace wrapped around the function, the mangled
name of the function
show as a local symbol when running nm on the shared library I produced.
If I get rid of
the anonymous namespace, the function shows as global.  I did try a
--verion-script to
make the symbol global, as well as use __attribute__((visibility("default")))
around the
function, but again the symbol showed as local, not global.

I can provide sample code if necessary.

Is this a binutils thing or a GCC thing?

If it's GCC related, sorry for mailing to the wrong list and I'll take it
up on the GCC list.

Thanks,

Tom