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From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
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On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 01:38:29 -0700
Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> wrote:

> Dan Nelson wrote:
> > I guess the correct question to be asking is "does the ELF format allow
> > 0-length symbols?"
> 
> It does, according to my reading of it.  They may have an issue with
> dead code removal or element aliasing.  The way to find out would be
> to see what they emit for "[]"... 0 lenth, or 1?

% <icc.c 
char array[];

% nm icc.o
00000001 C array

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Alexander.

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