Fangrui Song i@maskray.me
Wed Mar 25 21:46:22 GMT 2020

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On 2020-03-25, Alan Modra wrote:
>On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 10:36:01PM -0700, Fangrui Song wrote:
>> .weak (config/obj-elf.c) apparently overrides .globl (read.c) and .local
>> (config/obj-elf.c) but this seems accidental rather than intentional.
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>No, it was deliberate.  git commit 5ca547dc239.
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>Alan Modra
>Australia Development Lab, IBM

Ian does not remember what problems the commit fixed. He wouldn't have
done it on a whim. Maybe we can revisit the decision after 24 years.

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