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Duncan Sands baldrick at free.fr
Mon Jul 20 01:19:17 PDT 2009


Hi Chris,

> Right.  Private linkage is discarded by the assembler, so they never  
> make it into the .o file.  linker_private is discarded by the linker,  
> so it never makes it into the .exe/.dylib.  I don't think there is a  
> corresponding idea on ELF, so on ELF they two linkage types should be  
> codegen'd the same way.

I don't understand why you would want something to be discarded by
the assembler/linker and not by the linker/assembler.  Don't you
want them both to throw pointless things away?

Ciao,

Duncan.



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