[RFA:] PR37170, extern weak broken, like for gcc.dg/weak/weak-1.c

[Jason Merrill]

Richard Guenther wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Rafael Espindola <espindola@google.com> wrote:
>> Attached. I proposed to try to removed some of the calls to
>> assemble_external in the FE. I started with the ones in C++ and was
>> surprised to see no regressions on x86 and x86-64 by just removing
>> them.

I suspect that's because x86 doesn't need assemble_external to reference 
an external symbol.  I remember it being most important for HPPA targets.

Jason