[PATCH] Handle weak symbols

[Andreas Jaeger]

Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:

> >>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> writes:
> 
>     Andreas> The bug manifests in the latest released glibc.  But
>     Andreas> similar code is used in all glibc releases.
> 
> So are you saying that this is a regression from GCC 2.95.2?  In other
> words, did GCC 2.95.2 do the correct thing with this code on PowerPC,
> even though GCC 3.0 does not?
> 
> This is a very important question from the point of view of whether to
> try to fix this bug on the release branch.

AFAIK this even does not work with 2.95.2 on PowerPC - but this bug is
critical for glibc and we need to have it fixed.  Otherwise everybody
needs to download Franz' patch for compilation of glibc.

Please add it to the branch,
Andreas
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