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Re: Is linkonce underused?

From: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
To: Matt Austern <austern at apple dot com>
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 16:07:15 -0800
Subject: Re: Is linkonce underused?
References: <20021217140639.A15426@lucon.org> <EFEBB28A-120F-11D7-BD76-000393B2ABA2@apple.com>

On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 02:36:08PM -0800, Matt Austern wrote:
> >
> > GRP_COMDAT can be used for that. It is available in ELF. I'd like to
> > see gcc support it.
> 
> Has anyone done any preliminary design work on this?  Apple
> is doing some work that's relevant to it, and we'd hate to
> duplicate anyone else's effort.

I believe GRP_COMDAT is the way to go, at least for ELF targets. The
binutils support was put in recently. I don't know if it has been
tested at all. But I have an impression that Apple doesn't use ELF.
Is that true?

H.J.

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