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From: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
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On Sat, 9 Nov 2013, Andreas Tobler wrote:

> anyone interested in this patch to remove the WEAK_ALIAS and introduce
> the WEAK_REFERENCE?
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~andreast/weak_ref.amd64.diff
>
> I have this running since months on amd64 and I have no issues with.
>
> I remember having had a communication with bde@ that he is in favour in
> doing that but I lacked the time to complete.
> A similar thing is pending for i386 and sparc64. The ppc stuff is
> already committed since a longer time.
>
> If no one is interested, I'm happy to clean up my tree and skip this.

I have only minor interest in it.

I might have looked at it before.  This version formats the backslashes
in macro definitions very badly by putting them in random columns between
about 96 and 120 instead of in column 72.

Bruce