ARM PATCH: Implement COMDAT groups

Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
Mon Sep 13 18:33:00 GMT 2004


Richard Earnshaw wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 15:47, Mark Mitchell wrote:
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>>Richard Earnshaw wrote:
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>>>On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 20:26, Mark Mitchell wrote:
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>>>>This patch implements support for use of COMDAT groups as required by
>>>>the C++ ABI.
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>>For IA32 GNU/Linux, say, this seems more like a feature addition to me. 
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>Well, sounds like an area of non-conformance that it might be nice to
>say that the 4.x series had fixed... :-)
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What do other people think about this issue?

I'm particularly interested in whether there are problems arising 
because COMDAT support is not presently implemented in GCC.

For reference, the patch in question is:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-09/msg01004.html

Thanks,

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