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Re: equating symbols to undefined


>>> "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> 21.10.05 19:02:50 >>>
>".set" can be used to define a local symbol from a global symbol to
>avoid relocation. The change was made to prevent the gcc bug.
>
>I still like to see what other assemblers do.

I can't say anything about Solaris/HPUX/IRIX/AIX; for what it is worth,
MASM supports (non-global) equates to externals (MASM equates aren't
exactly like gas' in that, if the expression is not resolvable at the
point of definition, it is used as a literal text replacement, and
resolving the expression is then done at point of use). Intel's ias (for
ia64) also supports (non-global) equates to externals, and ias' support
for equates is much closer to gas'.

Jan


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