reduces to a relocatable symbol plus an offset. This preserves
the symbol type information (function vs. object). It is important
for SVR4-style weak symbols, e.g., "#pragma weak foo=bar". Without
this change, the linker complains that the jmpslot entry is not a
function.
sense to have a weak symbol that is not externally visible. This
fixes many of the "relocation burb" warnings produced when compiling
C++ code with "-fpic". Beyond eliminating warnings, it also makes
some things work that didn't work before.
of binutils. For all architectures and object file formats,
".p2align n" aligns to the next multiple of 2**n. Thus for FreeBSD,
it does exactly the same thing as the traditional ".align".
The old ".align" directive has different meanings in different
object formats, and even in different variants of a.out. Sometimes
is aligns to a multiple of n, and other times it aligns to a multiple
of 2**n. ".p2align" is preferable for use in assembly language
sources, since it makes them more portable to object formats other
than a.out.
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
.weak as gcc and g++ would like to use.
This includes changes to other architectures mostly for completeness,
I don't expect cross-assemblink would work but I could be wrong.
Obtained from: NetBSD
patch file had absolute pathnames in it and went and patched /usr/src directly
(first time this has happened, I'll watch for it now), so I thought I might
as well just commit it and clean up the .orig files and whatnot left behind.
Sorry - this is the first time this has happened to me. Very confusing.
