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Re: RFC: COMDAT group names become anonymouse local symbols


On 10/20/2010 6:04 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

> The gas behaviour makes sense in that it gives you a slightly smaller
> object file, although that is partially offset by the need for the
> linker to do extra work to dig up the section name from .shstrtab rather
> than the symbol name from .strtab.  But I agree that it does not meet
> the letter of the ELF standard.

So, would a patch to make GAS create a local symbol for the group name
be acceptable?  Or would it be rejected on the grounds that it makes
object files bigger?

Thanks,

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Mark Mitchell
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