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Re: Patch: Make PE-CFF "weak externals" behaviour consistent betweenGNU and MS linker.

From: "Aaron W. LaFramboise" <aaron98wiridge9 at aaronwl dot com>
To: dannysmith at users dot sourceforge dot net
Cc: binutils <binutils at sources dot redhat dot com>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 13:47:19 -0500
Subject: Re: Patch: Make PE-CFF "weak externals" behaviour consistent betweenGNU and MS linker.
References: <20050815080458.97287.qmail@web50901.mail.yahoo.com>

Danny Smith wrote:

This patch changes the comment in bfd/cofflink.c to reflect reality and
makes gas produce object files with IMAGE_WEAK_EXTERN_SEARCH_NOLIBRARY
characteristic set.

FWIW, since I was the one who wrote this comment, I agree that this patch is the right thing to do.

I had intended to look at this myself, but unfortunately I ran out of time.

Aaron W. LaFramboise

References:
- Patch: Make PE-CFF "weak externals" behaviour consistent between GNU and MS linker.
  - From: Danny Smith

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