Weak changes cause arm/NetBSD bootstrap failure.

Richard Henderson rth@redhat.com
Sun Mar 24 02:29:00 GMT 2002


On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 11:20:04AM +0000, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> How can a common symbol, which by definition is just a tentative 
> allocation of space if there is no initialized alternative, be made weak?

Hum.  There's nothing to prevent it in ELF, since binding is
independent of common.  But I guess it doesn't really make 
much sense...


r~



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