[llvm-dev] Handling of section vs global name conflicts

[Joerg Sonnenberger via llvm-dev]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 01:25:17PM -0700, Evgenii Stepanov via llvm-dev wrote:
> Another option is to allow the conflict, and make the global always
> override the section symbol. This is easy to do in the integrated
> assembler, but it appears that GAS simply does not work this way.

Don't we have a similar case for STT_FILE already?

Joerg