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Re: Bug in egcs-1.1.2 on HP-UX 10.20
- To: "Martin v. Loewis" <martin at mira dot isdn dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de>
- Subject: Re: Bug in egcs-1.1.2 on HP-UX 10.20
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at upchuck dot cygnus dot com>
- Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 13:49:16 -0700
- cc: R dot Hildebrandt at tu-bs dot de, oliva at dcc dot unicamp dot br, egcs-bugs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <199903271302.OAA07005@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de>you write:
> > What are weak symbols ?
>
> You don't need to worry about them; AFAIK, HPUX doesn't support them.
> (In case you do worry: this is a linker technique which allows proceed
> linking even if functions are missing, and then detect that at
> run-time)
Actually, hpux can support weak symbols. Our tools just don't hand it yet.
In SOM (the native object format for hps) they're usually called secondary
definitions or something like that. To support them we'd just need a little
compiler, assembler & bfd work. It would be a nice little project for someone
that wants to learn a little about bfd :-)
jeff