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Re: [PATCH] Don't use weak linkage for symbols in COMDAT groups
Nathan Sidwell <nathan@codesourcery.com> writes:
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 11:22:49PM -0500, Andrew Pinski wrote:
>
>>> Before this change, a::f in the TU of file b and a were both marked as
>>> weak so
>>>that they would not complain when you link the two files together.
>> Why isn't a::f in a COMDAT group, anyway?
>
> probably because the latest releast binutils does this on i686 during
> configure
>
> configure:13492: checking assembler for COMDAT group support
> configure:13506: /usr/local/bin/as --fatal-warnings -o conftest.o conftest.s >&5
> /home/nathan/egcs/HEAD/gcc/gcc/configure: line 1: 3254 Segmentation fault (core dumped) $gcc_cv_as --fatal-warnings -o conftest.o conftest.s 1>&5
> configure:13509: $? = 139
> configure: failed program was
> .section .text,"axG",@progbits,.foo,comdat
> configure:13520: result: no
But this is unrelated to the libjava failure, because even if COMDAT is
supported libjava still fails to link.
Andreas.
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