<div dir="ltr">Nick,<div><br></div><div>That's a good point. I don't fully understand the semantics of mergeAsTentative, but if it's for ELF's common symbol, we may be able to use it. I don't know the correct semantics of the common symbol in COFF because the spec says nothing about it.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Nick Kledzik <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kledzik@apple.com" target="_blank">kledzik@apple.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Rui,<br>
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Does Windows linker treat “common” symbols differently that lld’s mergeAsTentative? Is there something we need to change in core linking to support alternate semantics? Or is this an issue with creating mergeAsTentative from COFF object files?<br>
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-Nick<br>
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On Aug 12, 2013, at 5:03 PM, Rui Ueyama <<a href="mailto:ruiu@google.com">ruiu@google.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> This is a temporary measure because the semantics of the common symbol is<br>
> actually more compilcated than the simple mergeable symbol.<br>
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