Rui Ueyama

If GNU unique is enabled by default and gcc emits GNU unique symbols aggressively, the symbols we are discussing about should have been consistently of type GNU unique. It's odd...

It feels like a bug of the GCC linker plugin. Do you mind if I ask you to file a bug against GCC? Or you can fix it yourself and...

I cannot answer to the question regarding the WEAK symbol without experiments. The current symbol strength rules is chosen based on a large scale experiment (by compiling 10,000 Gentoo packages),...

> So really here we need to teach GCC to emit COMDAT or get the duplicate checker to not complain about this case, I think. How difficult it is to...

> I've been thinking about doing COMDAT elimination before symbol resolution. That idea hasn't occurred to me, but it sounds very interesting. The more I think about it, it more...

I believe in computer science context, _n_ times faster is defined as it takes 1/_n_ of time compared to another program, and _n_ times slower is defined as the inverse...

Sorry for the belated response. I was thinking carefully as to what this patch is doing. My understanding is that in order to implement `--allow-shlib-undefined` properly, we need to resolve...

This generally seems good. I agree with you that CMake is probably the build system we should migrate to, as we have already been using it for the third-party packages....

I made a few changes to the makefiles and test files. Can you rebase your patch?

It looks like this commit is good enough to be included in the main branch, though I don't want to make a switch from Make to CMake immediately. So I'll...