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Re: RFC: COMDAT group names become anonymouse local symbols


On 10/20/2010 10:41 PM, H.J. Lu wrote:

> The symbol table entry of group signature doesn't need a name
> since it isn't a real symbol. Having a symbol name for group signature
> sounds a bad idea.

Have you read through the previous messages in this thread?  It seems to
me that there's a consensus that in fact the ELF specification requires
that group signature symbols have a name, and there's certainly a
practical problem in that at least one linker relies on that.

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