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Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 17:14:57 -0800
From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Subject: Re: [module-init-tools] fix weak symbol handling
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On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 02:16:57PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> So the semantics you want are that if A declares a weak symbol S, and
> B exports a (presumably non-weak) symbol S, then A depends on B?

No.  The semantics I need is if A references a weak symbol S 
and *no one* implements it, then S resolves to NULL.


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