[PATCH] Use comdat instead of .gnu.linkonce for i386 setup pic register

[Zack Weinberg]

On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 2:48 PM, Adhemerval Zanella
<adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> wrote:
> GCC has moved from using .gnu.linkonce for i386 setup pic register with
> minimum current version (as for binutils minimum binutils that support
> comdat).  This patch replace linkonce usage by comdat.

Is this change compatible with older GCC/binutils versions as well as
the new ones?

zw