From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robert Lipe To: "Mark E." , gas2@cygnus.com, sac@cygnus.com Subject: Re: COFF weak symbols Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 20:47:00 -0000 Message-id: <19981003224815.A8913@dgii.com> References: <199810031525.PAA100700@out4.ibm.net> <199810031525.PAA100700@out4.ibm.net> X-SW-Source: 1998/msg00234.html 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