[RFA] Add stabs entries for coalesced symbols.

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Klee Dienes wrote:

> [ I should first warn you that I'm by no means an authority on our 
> implementation of coalesced symbols; my only real experience with them 
> is teaching GDB to ignore them. ]

The doco part is approved, but please correct this line:

  +@cindex {coalesced symbol}

Please remove the {} around the index entry text.

> There's no reason they couldn't be supported on other platforms, though 
> it seems unlikely they would be (since I believe COMDAT sections serve 
> the same purpose).  I thought that starting the section with "On Mac OS 
> X" and including that in the menu entry was a reasonably clear way to 
> mark the feature as Mac OS X -specific.  I'm certainly willing to 
> include something stronger, but couldn't think of a way to do it that 
> didn't seem awkward --- any suggestions?

You could add a @footnote saying that currently this feature is supported 
only on the Mac.