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Re: [PATCH 1/2]: configure: use the .set directive when testing for .weak
On 21 September 2010 13:35, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:16, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> your port isnt the only one that does this.
>
> Which is why this patch shouldn't be necessary. ÂI have no experience
> with such ports but somehow it already works without any further
> changes.
If an asssembler supports .weakext, then it will be used instead of .weak.
Thus, the configure .weak test can fail, and one can still have things work.
In my case, the assembler does not support .weakext, which is how this
got debugged.
--linas