PATCH: Support COMDAT group for ia64 assembler

[Zack Weinberg]

"H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:

> On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 07:43:32AM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
>> This patch adds the COMDAT group support for ia64 assembler. With the
>> modified gcc 3.4 to emit COMDAT group. I got "make check":
>> 
>> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2004-05/msg00076.html
>> 
>> The only new failure is
>> 
>> FAIL: g++.dg/compat/eh/ctor2 cp_compat_x_tst.o-cp_compat_y_tst.o execute 
>> I am looking into it now.
>
> The linker seems to be doing the right thing. The problem seems to be
> in my gcc COMDAT kludge. It doesn't group sections properly. It affects
> ia64 more than ia32 and x86_64. Zack, do you have a gcc COMDAT patch I
> can try?

No, sorry, haven't gotten that far.  I *might* have time to play with
some of your stuff with hand-coded assembly next week, but don't hold
your breath.

zw