Re: target/6569: sparc-sun-solaris2.7 C testsuite regression in compile/20011119-2.c

[Franz Sirl <Franz dot Sirl-kernel at lauterbach dot com>]

At 19:05 07.05.2002, Mark Mitchell wrote:
>I understand the problem and I think I know how to fix it, but I have a
>question:
>
>Is code like this supposed to be valid?
>
>  extern void * ffoo1c (void);
>  void * foo1c (void)
>  {
>    return (void *)ffoo1c;
>  }
>  extern void * ffoo1c (void) __attribute__((weak));
>
>If so, why do we have a warning in declare_weak that says:
>
>  "weak declaration must precede definition"
>
>?  This would seem to be exactly that case.
>
>My patch causes us to issue that error, causing some of weak-*.c tests
>to fail.
>
>Something is wrong: either the error message or the test.  Which one?

No answers, but I have a solution now, look at how I handle WEAK_EMITTED in 
the appended patch.

Please comment.

This is just a very raw version right now, I haven't 
bootstrapped/minimized/nicefied etc. it yet.

Franz.

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