Support for ELF's STT_COMMON symbol type

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Guys,

  You may want to look at PR 4799 where I have proposed a patch for
  adding support for the ELF standard's STT_COMMON symbol type to the
  binutils.  This might matter to you because the patch would change
  the behaviour of ELF targeted assemblers so that all common symbols
  would have the STT_COMMON type rather than the STT_OBJECT type.  I
  am particularly interested to know if there are any tools or build
  systems out there that rely upon common symbols having the
  STT_OBJECT type.

  http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4799

Cheers
  Nick