RFC: weakref GCC attribute and .weakref assembly directive

[Hans-Peter Nilsson]

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Nick Clifton wrote:

>    mmix-mmixware:
>      Fails because its target specific code cannot handle the
>        "<symbol> = <expression>" syntax.
>      Recommendation: Mark the test as xfail and prompt
>        Hans-Peter to fix the mmix backend.

I've never seen "=" as any kind of universal assembler syntax.
Why not use the standard GAS .set and .equiv-ish pseudos?

brgds, H-P