From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>
To: "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Why does gas have both S_IS_EXTERNAL and S_IS_EXTERN?
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 03:07:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m33btmrvs7.fsf@gossamer.airs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050419191948.GB19412@lucon.org>
"H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:
> S_IS_EXTERN just calls S_IS_EXTERNAL. Why does gas need it?
It doesn't.
In the non BFD_ASSEMBLER case, in obj-coff.h, S_IS_EXTERN and
S_IS_EXTERNAL are not identical. Specifically, S_IS_EXTERNAL will
return true for a common symbol, and S_IS_EXTERN will not. This is
almost certainly a bug.
Ian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-20 3:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-19 19:19 H. J. Lu
2005-04-20 3:07 ` Ian Lance Taylor [this message]
2005-04-20 4:27 ` H. J. Lu
2005-04-20 9:29 ` Nick Clifton
2005-04-20 14:32 ` PATCH: Remove S_IS_EXTERN H. J. Lu
2005-04-20 17:29 ` Nick Clifton
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