Use COMDAT section group instead of gnu.linkonce?

[Zack Weinberg]

"H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:

> With my current binutils COMDAT group patches, I patched gcc 3.4 to
> use COMDAT group instead of gnu.linkonce sections. There are no
> regressions on ia32, ia64 and x86_64:
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2004-05/msg00175.html
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2004-05/msg00174.html
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2004-05/msg00173.html
>
> Should we start moving toward COMDAT section group? It will help fix
> DWARF2 problems.

I for one would like to see that happen in 3.5.

zw