Document the weak-linking behavior of the availability attribute

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Douglas Gregor 2012-03-11 17:21:03 +00:00
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@ -665,6 +665,12 @@ void f(void) __attribute__((availability(macosx,introduced=10.4,deprecated=10.6,
<dd>Apple's Mac OS X operating system. The minimum deployment target is specified by the <code>-mmacosx-version-min=<i>version</i></code> command-line argument.</dd>
</dl>
<p>A declaration can be used even when deploying back to a platform
version prior to when the declaration was introduced. When this
happens, the declaration is <a
href="https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPFrameworks/Concepts/WeakLinking.html">weakly
linked</a>, as if the <code>weak_import</code> attribute were added to the declaration. A weakly-linked declaration may or may not be present a run-time, and a program can determine whether the declaration is present by checking whether the address of that declaration is non-NULL.</p>
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