From: Robert Lipe <robertl@dgii.com>
To: "Mark E." <snowball3@usa.net>, gas2@cygnus.com, sac@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: COFF weak symbols
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 20:47:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19981003224815.A8913@dgii.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199810031525.PAA100700@out4.ibm.net>
Mark E. wrote:
> I'm interested have added or in adding an extension to COFF (or at
> least DJGPP's COFF) to have weak symbols. I've already added the
> .weak directive to the Oct 1st snapshot, but I wanted to check and
> see how you wanted me proceed (or even if I should proceed). I'm not
> an object file expert, but I know just enough to
I know of at least one other person that's tried it. After discussions
with the author of the attached patch, the author of weak support in
OpenServer, and myself, I think this was abandoned.
Whether it was abandoned becuase of funkiness in the interoperability
requirement of OpenServer or just lack of motivation, I really can't
recall. Since SCO had a free linker that did this, it may have well
been the motivation thing.
The attached patch might serve as a starting place. It seemed like a
lot of the infrastructure was already present for other object file
formats.
I don't know the copyright status of these patches.
RJL
prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-10-03 20:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-10-03 8:25 Mark E.
1998-10-03 9:03 ` Ian Lance Taylor
1998-10-03 10:35 ` Mark E.
1998-10-03 20:47 ` Robert Lipe [this message]
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