On Oct 13, 2005, Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 08:33:01AM -0500, Aaron W. LaFramboise wrote: >> Could you compare your novel weak references to PECOFF's notion of "weak >> externals"? >> >> .weak sym1 = sym2 # Analogous to: .weakref sym1, sym2
> The difference is that ".weak sym1 = sym2" resolves to sym1 (if > available) else sym2; but ".weakref sym1, sym2" resolves to sym2 (if > available) else zero. Also sym1 does not become an external, only a > local alias, IIRC. Yep. In `.weak sym1 = sym2', sym1 is a weak alias, which I actually contrast with a weakref in the spec text I posted. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED], gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org}
