Possible bug in binutils for MinGW-w64 related to linking weak symbols

[Eric Botcazou]

> True, but it works differently on the mingw-w64 target than on all others.
> On a Linux target, the code compiles and links without problems. IMHO it
> shouldn't change the semantics of __attribute__((weak))__ depending on
> target architecture.

"weak" is a pure ELF thing, so the argument does not sound very convincing 
when applied to it and another object file format.

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Eric Botcazou