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...symbols with the linkonce linkage type. > > I guess this all goes back to the assembly language view of things. I think I have enough information to handle these things correctly now. I'm not sure (all I know about COFF is what's on this page: http://www.nondot.org/sabre/os/articles/ExecutableFileFormats/) but you can find out by making a .s file, running it through a coff assembler (like gas) and seeing what bits it produces. When working on the macho assembler, we found it very very useful to produce bitwise identical output to the system assembler, allowing us to just diff the .o files. -Chris...

... > Thanks, applied in r103150! llvm-mc -filetype=obj probably needs a similar > patch. > > cool!, I will make that change and submit it too. > ... > Yes probably, I don't know what the .def and .scl directives "do" :) > > I think I can figure out the right thing to do here. > Also, w.r.t. section handling stuff, there is this fixme in the asmprinter: