making aliases into the middle of a structure

Richard Henderson rth@cygnus.com
Fri Apr 23 15:54:00 GMT 1999


On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 01:40:34PM -0400, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> int common;
> extern int alias __attribute__ ((alias("common")));
> 
> `alias' will not be defined in the object file.  The assembly dump
> looks correct to me.

This is not a bug.  This is impossible to represent 
in the object file.  I believe SOM can do it if you
feel like hurting yourself...  ;-)


r~


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