Weak symbol support on powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0 (binutils 2.15)

[Michael Klein]

Hi all!

Are weak symbols unsupported on AIX 5.2 or is this a gas/bfd bug?

weak.a:

----8<------8<-----8<-----8<-----8<---
	.csect 	.data[RW]

	.globl 	g
g:	.long 	0

	.weak 	w
w:	.long 	0
----8<------8<-----8<-----8<-----8<---

$ as -uppc32 weak.a -o weak.o ; nm -l weak.o   # IBM as
g                    D           0
w                    D*          4
weak.a               f           -

$ gas -mppc32 weak.a -o weak.o ; nm -l weak.o  # GNU as
fake                 f           -
g                    D           0

-> where is 'w'?

$ gas -v
GNU assembler version 2.15 () using BFD version 2.15


Regards,

-- 
Michael Klein

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