https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28917
--- Comment #1 from Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org> ---
ugh, this appears to be undocumented behavior. i can't find anything in the
man page or manual discussing this, and the commit history predates git.
--- a/binutils/ar.c
+++ b/binutils/ar.c
@@ -1493,8 +1493,7 @@
/* For compatibility with existing ar programs, we
permit the same file to be added multiple times. */
if (FILENAME_CMP (normalize (*files_to_move, arch),
- normalize (bfd_get_filename (current), arch)) == 0
- && current->arelt_data != NULL)
+ normalize (bfd_get_filename (current), arch)) == 0)
{
bool replaced;
if (newer_only)
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