On Apr 4, 2012, at 4:37 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: > On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Tristan Gingold <ging...@adacore.com> wrote: > >> For Alpha, gas crashes during libstdc++ build. From initial investigation, >> this looks manageable. But Alpha object format is quite old, and has no >> support for comdat (but weak symbols should work). > > I believe weak symbols should suffice, if the object file does not have > comdat.
That's also my understanding from reading various gcc pieces. But these features (aliases and weak) was never well-tested in the Alpha VMS case. Tristan.
