Re: RFA: PR 66655: Use COFF/PE weak symbols

[Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>]

On 12/22/2015 03:17 AM, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
>    The patch below is a proposed fix for PR 66655.  The issue I believe
>    is not that the ming32 definition of bind_local_p is wrong, but rather
>    that G++ thinks that it cannot make the decl weak even though
>    bind_local_p says that it should.  The answer is to define
>    MAKE_DECL_ONE_ONLY using the COFF/PE weak symbol support now available
>    in gas and the linker.  Doing this allows the test to pass.
>
>    OK to apply ?
>
> Cheers
>    Nick
>
> gcc/ChangeLog
> 2015-12-22  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
>
> 	PR target/66655
> 	* config/i386/cygming.h (MAKE_DECL_ONE_ONLY): Use weak symbol
> 	support, if available.
You probably know the capabilities of COFF/PE better than I, so the 
patch itself is fine.

Is there any way that test can be shoved into our dejagnu testing 
harness?  I think we've got support somewhere for tests which require 
multiple input files.

Jeff