ld and common symbols

[Philip Blundell]

>It is intentional.
>
>This change is in order to match the behaviour of the native linkers
>for Solaris and HP-UX (and possibly others, we haven't tested), and is
>also necessary in order to allow libraries of FORTRAN generates
>objects to be correctly linked together.

OK, thanks.  Unfortunately the GNU C library seems to rely on the old 
behaviour.  I will discuss it with the libc folks.

p.