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Re: Support for ELF's STT_COMMON symbol type

Hi H.J.

I think STT_COMMON should be enabled by default. But we only
generate it when

.type foo, %common

is used. Given that gcc doesn't generate it, it should be OK.

I think that would be a bad idea because then we would have two types of commons inside bfd. Those that had had ".type %common" set for them and those that had not. Such a situation would be far too likely to create new bugs in my opinion.

Cheers
  Nick


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