From: Fangrui Song <i@maskray.me>
To: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Error for the second binding (.local/.weak/.globl)
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:46:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200325214622.kj3v3habvpgchtyv@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200325084140.GF4583@bubble.grove.modra.org>
On 2020-03-25, Alan Modra wrote:
>On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 10:36:01PM -0700, Fangrui Song wrote:
>> .weak (config/obj-elf.c) apparently overrides .globl (read.c) and .local
>> (config/obj-elf.c) but this seems accidental rather than intentional.
>
>No, it was deliberate. git commit 5ca547dc239.
>
>--
>Alan Modra
>Australia Development Lab, IBM
Ian does not remember what problems the commit fixed. He wouldn't have
done it on a whim. Maybe we can revisit the decision after 24 years.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-25 21:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-25 5:36 Fangrui Song
2020-03-25 8:41 ` Alan Modra
2020-03-25 21:46 ` Fangrui Song [this message]
2020-03-25 22:53 ` Alan Modra
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