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Dave Korn wrote:
> http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2008-07/msg00372.html
> 
>   So I believe now this is a symptom of a buggy ld already fixed upstream.
> I'll try the testcase again against one of my CVS builds of binutils and
> report back, but I expect it will fix the problem and rebase will no longer
> alter the unlinked weak null-initialised pointer.

  Confirmed.  (This has implications which I will pursue in the GCC4 thread on
-apps.)

    cheers,
      DaveK


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